The US Conference of Catholic Bishops gave the go-ahead on the drafting of a document that could bar President Joe Biden from receiving communion, because of his stance on abortion.
A 2019 poll by the Pew Research Center found 56% of Catholic respondents said abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
The clash could be particularly harmful to the Catholic church, where mass attendance has been declining for decades
"The vast majority of Catholics are pro-life and pro-choice," Dr. Patrick Whelan, a doctor and professor at the Institute of Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California told Insider.
Rebecca Houston, who taught at a Catholic high school in Chicago for more than two decades said it was "shocking" that bishops would potentially deny Biden, a "devout" Catholic, the Eucharist over a political matter, but that to her it's just the latest example of church leadership's failures.
Wajahat Ali, a columnist for the Daily Beast, similarly tweeted, “US Catholic Church doing everything it can to make people leave the Church. Interesting marketing strategy.”
A 2019 poll by the Pew Research Center found 56% of Catholic respondents said abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
The clash could be particularly harmful to the Catholic church, where mass attendance has been declining for decades
"The vast majority of Catholics are pro-life and pro-choice," Dr. Patrick Whelan, a doctor and professor at the Institute of Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California told Insider.
Rebecca Houston, who taught at a Catholic high school in Chicago for more than two decades said it was "shocking" that bishops would potentially deny Biden, a "devout" Catholic, the Eucharist over a political matter, but that to her it's just the latest example of church leadership's failures.
Wajahat Ali, a columnist for the Daily Beast, similarly tweeted, “US Catholic Church doing everything it can to make people leave the Church. Interesting marketing strategy.”
