{"id":564534,"date":"2021-06-15T13:36:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T17:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=564534"},"modified":"2021-06-15T13:36:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T17:36:36","slug":"white-house-denies-report-that-vatican-canceled-a-meeting-between-biden-and-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-denies-report-that-vatican-canceled-a-meeting-between-biden-and-pope-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Denies Report That Vatican Canceled A Meeting Between Biden And Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-denies-report-that-vatican-canceled-a-meeting-between-biden-and-pope-francis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=564534&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><ul>\n<li><strong>The White House denied Tuesday that the Vatican had canceled a meeting between Pope Francis and President Joe Biden.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>As Catholic bishops convene to discuss a number of church topics, including whether the pro-abortion president should be denied communion, a report emerged that the Vatican had cancelled a meeting between the Holy Father and the president scheduled for Tuesday.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A White House spokesman denied this report to the Daily Caller News Foundation Tuesday morning, saying, \u201cThat is untrue.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The White House denied Tuesday that the Vatican had canceled a meeting between Pope Francis and President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>As Catholic bishops convene to discuss a number of church topics, including whether the pro-abortion president should be denied communion, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/247997\/update-meeting-between-pope-francis-and-president-biden-did-not-happen\">Catholic News Agency reported<\/a> that the Vatican had canceled a meeting between the Holy Father and the president scheduled for Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A White House spokesman denied this report to the Daily Caller News Foundation Tuesday morning, saying, \u201cThat is untrue.\u201d CNA has updated its story to note that it \u201cerroneously reported that the U.S. President would meet with the pope on June 15.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s team had also requested that Biden attend Mass Tuesday morning with the pope, a \u201creliable Vatican source\u201d told CNA, and the Vatican reportedly refused this proposal in light of current controversy over Biden\u2019s reception of Holy Communion.<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not respond to a request for comment from the DCNF about the alleged proposed Mass. The Vatican has not responded to requests for comment. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/18\/catholic-joe-biden-holy-communion\/\">(RELATED: Catholic Archbishops Will Discuss Denying Biden Communion In June. Until Then, Most Are Staying Quiet About It)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Public affairs officer at the U.S. embassy to the Holy See Emily Zeeburg told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncronline.org\/news\/politics\/no-pope-francis-did-not-cancel-meeting-president-biden\">National Catholic Reporter Online<\/a> that Biden does not have plans to visit Rome or the Vatican this week, and the Vatican\u2019s foreign minister Archbishop Paul Gallagher told the publication he had \u201cno knowledge\u201d of plans for a meeting between Biden and the pope.<\/p>\n<p>The president will travel to Rome in October, the publication reported.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7214515\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"38\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7214515\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7214515 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1207241396.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1207241396.jpg 2100w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1207241396-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1207241396-620x413-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1207241396-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1207241396-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1207241396-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2100px) 100vw, 2100px\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7214515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Handout picture released by the Vatican Media showing Pope Francis, in Rome on March 15, 2020, prays in S. Marcello al Corso church, where there is a miraculous crucifix that in 1552 was carried in a procession around Rome to stop the great plague. (VATICAN MEDIA\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>During the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) national meeting this week, the bishops <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/28\/catholic-bishops-biden-communion\/\">will reportedly discuss whether<\/a>\u00a0to tell the president, and other high profile Catholic politicians like Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, not to receive Communion at Mass if they continue to publicly advocate for abortion.<\/p>\n<p class=\" story-text__paragraph\">In an early May letter, the Vatican\u2019s Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Cardinal Luis Ladaria\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/cardinal-ladaria-cautions-us-bishops-on-politicians-and-communion\/\">warned the archbishops<\/a>\u00a0to approach public discussion of the matter with caution.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/11\/archbishop-cordileone-nancy-pelosi-catholic-communion-biden\/\">(RELATED: Archbishop Cordileone Says He Had \u2018Conversations\u2019 With Pro-Abortion Pelosi About Holy Communion)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\" story-text__paragraph\">Any new policy \u201crequires that dialogue occurs in two stages: first among the bishops themselves, and then between bishops and Catholic pro-choice politicians within their jurisdictions,\u201d Ladaria wrote,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/cardinal-ladaria-cautions-us-bishops-on-politicians-and-communion\/\">according to the Catholic News Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not all Catholic clergy agree on whether Biden should be denied communion, though the Catholic Church teaches that abortion is \u201ca crime against human life,\u201d \u201cconstitutes a grave offense\u201d and that a person who obtains an abortion is automatically excommunicated from the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>Washington, D.C., Archbishop Wilton Gregory <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/11\/24\/archbishop-gregory-joe-biden-communion\/\">said in late November<\/a> that he would not deny Biden Communion, adding that Biden went to Mass and received Communion while he served as former President Barack Obama\u2019s vice president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to veer from that,\u201d he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/11\/24\/archbishop-gregory-joe-biden-communion\/\">said in an interview with America Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But other archbishops have frankly said that if Biden persists in his support for abortion, they would ultimately ask him to refrain from Communion.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone warned pro-abortion Catholic public figures not to receive Communion at Mass if they find that they \u201care unwilling or unable to abandon\u201d their \u201cadvocacy for abortion.\u201d The archbishop told the DCNF in a May interview that clergy should first have conversations with high profile pro-abortion politicians like Biden before denying them Holy Communion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the case of President Biden or any other prominent Catholic, I think what I would do is if I knew that they were coming into the area here and planned to attend Mass, I would try to have those conversations as well ahead of time,\u201d he said.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/11\/26\/joe-biden-evolve-abortion-hyde-amendment\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0Here\u2019s How Joe Biden Has Evolved On Abortion As He Attempts To Become President)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we don\u2019t say anything, if we don\u2019t speak out, then we are also culpable,\u201d Cordileone told the DCNF. \u201cI tremble at the responsibility that God has given me \u2026 When it comes to pastoral application of church teaching, that\u2019s where pastoral discretion is needed, different judgments might be made by different bishops in different situations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut in the case of someone so prominent as the president of the United States, again this is a scandal, and it\u2019s causing confusion in the minds of our Catholics,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House denied Tuesday that the Vatican had canceled a meeting between Pope Francis and President Joe Biden. 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