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Bishops Advance Effort That Could Restrict Communion for Biden
U.S. church leaders approve controversial proposal despite warnings from Vatican
Bishop Kevin Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., heads the doctrinal committee for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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U.S. Catholic bishops on Friday agreed to prepare a document that would lay out the conditions under which Catholic politicians who support abortion rights, including President Biden, may be denied Communion.
The controversial measure, which had drawn objections from the Vatican and from Pope Francis’s strongest allies among the U.S. bishops, required a simple majority to advance; it passed with 73%, or 168, of the 229 votes cast on Thursday. More than 270 U.S. bishops were eligible to vote.
The bishops’ doctrinal committee will now proceed to draft a docum
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