The pontiff has generally expressed opposition to the idea of “weaponizing the Eucharist”
Pope Francis elevates the Host that some bishops would deny to Joe Biden. Photo: Mondadori Portfolio/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images Pope Francis has let it be known indirectly through his Vatican agents that he is not happy with the efforts of conservative U.S. Bishops to deny communion to pro-choice politicians, including, of course, the Catholic President Joe Biden.
“I have never refused the eucharist to anyone,” Francis said, though he added that he did not know of any instance when such a politician had come to him for communion. Bishops should be pastors, he said, not politicians….“If we look at the history of the church, we will see that every time the bishops have not managed a problem as pastors, they have taken a political stance on a political problem,” he told reporters on his plane as he returned from a four-day trip to Slovakia and Hungary.
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