What’s Going on with President Biden, the Bishops, and the Eucharist?

Back in November, I wrote a piece for FemCatholic on all of the talk swirling around Eucharistic coherence. Here’s a snippet, and you can find the rest here.

A few weeks ago, you may have seen that President Biden met with Pope Francis in Rome. “We just talked about the fact he was happy that I was a good Catholic and I should keep receiving Communion,” Biden reported to news outlets after the meeting. Among discussions of climate change and coronavirus, Biden’s comment that he should “keep receiving communion” references a debate that’s been happening in Catholic circles about whether he and other Catholics who publicly disagree with Church teachings like abortion should be allowed to receive communion at Mass. 

The public debate has surfaced ahead of the fall meeting of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Before the headlines surface, here’s a primer on what’s going on behind all the news about President Biden, the bishops, and the Eucharist.

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