We are getting details about Joe Biden’s meeting with Pope Francis yesterday, and they are painting a bleak picture. Whether you believe the president lies or not will determine who it is.
According to Biden, not only was abortion not mentioned in the conversation, but the president was lauded as a “good Catholic” who is still clear to receive communion. This despite the Pope’s repeated declaration that abortion was murder only weeks earlier.
RedState’s Nick Arama reported on the meeting earlier today.
ICYMI: “We just talked about the fact that he was happy I’m a good Catholic. I should keep receiving Communion,” Biden said on his conversation Friday with Pope Francis https://t.co/UGVbSdE3tT pic.twitter.com/WXExpkPLZH
— Bloomberg Quicktake (@Quicktake) October 30, 2021
Although I do have issues with Pope Francis, Biden’s statement doesn’t seem like a fair representation of what happened at the meeting. Would the leader of the Catholic Church really tell someone who supports abortion and flaunts a myriad of other required doctrines that they are a “good Catholic”? Even if the Pope spoke in a respectful tone, it seems absurd to think of such a thing.
It’s not impossible to imagine Biden telling the truth. It’s certainly not out of the realm of possibility given the current Pope’s more left-leaning stance toward the Church and politics in general. If he’s not, this paints a grim picture of the Catholic Church in general, and especially its leadership.
Being honest with others about sin is part of being Christian. It is troubling that a Christian leader would sit next to a president who has been so involved in abortion, including the murder of children in the wombs, and refuse to give him the truth. And to be sure, there have been other presidents who deserved to be called out as well, but that doesn’t absolve the Pope of his complicity here if he did, in fact, not even bring up abortion.
Further, even if the Pope believes that it is not his place to correct Biden in that type of meeting (who’s place is it, if not?), it’s certainly his place to support the Bishops who feel it is right to deny the president communion. Do Church doctrines matter? Because it sure feels like there are two different standards here, and I’m pretty sure God doesn’t have carve-outs for politicians.
Let’s all hope that Biden’s comment is just the president blowing smoke, something he’s known to do. Because if it’s true, and Pope Francis really did praise him as a “good Catholic” worthy of communion, then the Church has some serious problems.
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