On this deep dive episode of “Inside the Vatican,” producer Maggi Van Dorn and host Colleen Dulle dig into the history of the U.S. bishops’ engagement with political issues and give some background on today’s “Communion wars.”
Joseph R. Biden Jr.
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Interview: Archbishop Cordileone on Biden, Pelosi, abortion and Pope Francis
Gloria Purvis speaks with Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco about some of the most contested issues in the Catholic Church today.
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Senator Dick Durbin on being denied Communion over abortion stance: ‘I am careful when I go to a church’
For the last 17 years, Senator Durbin has been unable to receive Communion in his home diocese in Springfield, Ill.
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Bishops: Build Back Better bill would help many but abortion funding is ‘completely unacceptable’
The proposed Build Back Better Act has much-needed provisions “uplifting the common good,” but unacceptably “expands taxpayer funding of abortion,” the chairmen of six U.S.C.C.B. committees said.
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Leaked draft of bishops’ document on Communion lacks explicit reference to pro-choice politicians
A draft document about the Eucharist being prepared by a group of U.S. bishops makes only oblique references to Catholic politicians who disagree with church teaching.
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President Biden attends Mass in Rome and tells reporters why he admires Pope Francis
Pope Francis “is a man who has a great empathy. He’s a man who understands that part of his Christianity is to reach out and forgive,” U.S. President Joe Biden told reporters in Rome Oct. 31.
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What President Biden said to Pope Francis at the Vatican
U.S. President Joseph R. Biden Jr. met with Pope Francis at the Vatican this morning. President Biden presented the pope with a “command coin” commemorating his late son Beau’s Army unit, the 261st Signal Brigade. Explaining that the coins are given to warriors and leaders, the president told Pope Francis, “You are one of the […]
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Biden says Pope Francis told him to ‘keep receiving Communion’
Following a lengthy meeting with Pope Francis, President Joe Biden said on Friday that the pope told him he is a “good Catholic” and encouraged him to continue receiving Communion.
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Pope Francis and Joe Biden enjoy unusually long meeting at the Vatican
Pope Francis and President Joe Biden talked together in private for 75 minutes, an unusually long time by Vatican standards, a sign that the two leaders had a more in-depth discussion than observers had expected.
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Which president met the most popes? Who gave the weirdest gift? A brief history of U.S.-Vatican encounters.
When Pope Francis welcomes U.S. President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to the Vatican tomorrow, it will mark the 31st meeting between a sitting pope and a sitting U.S. president.