News analysis: Biden's top diplomat to meet pope -- and try to ignore the elephant in the room

[DonViejo]

Tracy Wilkinson
Sun, June 27, 2021, 8:00 AM·4 min read

When he meets with Pope Francis on Monday, the United States’ top diplomat will try to avoid the elephant in the room.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken intends to speak to the pontiff about shared values and ideas — fighting climate change, people trafficking, violence and racism.

But on the minds of many involved is a festering dispute that has pitted Francis against a group of conservative American Catholic bishops who want to deny full church participation to America’s top Catholic: President Biden.

Led by Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, a majority of the bishops voted earlier this month to advance a document, still being drafted, that could potentially deny Communion to Biden and other Catholic politicians who support reproductive rights, including the right to abortion, in violation of church doctrine.

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[Ferrets are Cool]

1. And if the Pope had any ****'s he would have already shut that shit down.

JMO, no one else has to agree.

[Aristus]

2. How come Papal infallibility only works if the Pope is trying to do bad things?

When he's trying to do good things, the "bad-things" caucus of the Cardinals is just allowed to disobey him?

[ismnotwasm]

3. The Pope has been a powerful political figure for centuries

Corruption in the Catholic Church is why we have Lutherans, among many other versions of Christianity. I’m actually amazed at how much influence he has. And how Christian churches hold on to outdated homophobic doctrine; doctrine that is based on bullshit.

Anyway My point is, the Pope *is* a powerful political figure. Of course Biden’s going to meet with him

[dalton99a]

4. The Opus Dei theocrat Jose Horacio Gomez is behind the Communion bullshit

He was appointed Archbishop of Los Angeles by Benedict

[kimbutgar]

5. We got one of those opus dei archbishops in San Francisco also.

Rev. Salvatore Cordileone, he is awful and I think he was put in on purpose to piss off the progressive Catholics in San Francisco. A long time parish church was shut down because the arch bishop drove away parishioners. Last Saturday my Catholic school class had its 50th reunion and they had a mass before. I didn’t go to mass because of that guy. I prefer the Lutheran church now over the Catholic.

[dalton99a]

6. +1. Another Catholic Taliban.

Another very fine choice by Benedict

[UTUSN]

7. K&R