Some conservative bishops in the United States have said the president should be denied communion because of his support for abortion rights.
President Biden received communion on Saturday evening at St. Patrick’s Church in Rome, a day after he announced that Pope Francis had told him during their long private meeting at the Vatican that he should continue taking the sacrament. Some conservative bishops in the United States have said the president, a Catholic and a regular churchgoer, should be denied communion because of his support for abortion rights. Mr. Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, attended Mass at St. Patrick’s, an English-speaking church dedicated to the American Catholic community, after a day of high-level negotiations at the Group of 20 summit. “It meant a lot to the American church in Rome that he made this special effort to be there to be present and to worship with us,” said the Rev.
