{"id":568035,"date":"2021-06-18T14:52:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T18:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=568035"},"modified":"2021-06-18T14:52:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T18:52:09","slug":"us-catholic-bishops-approve-drafting-of-eucharistic-document-addressing-communion-for-pro-abortion-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-catholic-bishops-approve-drafting-of-eucharistic-document-addressing-communion-for-pro-abortion-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"US Catholic Bishops Approve Drafting Of \u2018Eucharistic Document\u2019 Addressing Communion For Pro-Abortion Politicians"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fus-catholic-bishops-approve-drafting-of-eucharistic-document-addressing-communion-for-pro-abortion-politicians%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=568035&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1288086647.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>After hours of debate and weeks of concern, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) voted, overwhelmingly, on Friday to draft a \u201cteaching document\u201d addressing the issue of Communion for openly pro-abortion politicians, like Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The American Catholic hierarchy has yet to address the contents of the document, but according <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cwwhite212\/status\/1405936020844126217\">to the National Catholic Reporter<\/a>, the document is \u201cslated to include a section on \u2018Eucharistic consistency\u2019 and Catholic politicians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops this week voted to move forward on several action items, including a draft of a\u00a0teaching document on the Eucharist,\u201d Catholic News Agency reported Friday, adding that the document is to be considered \u201ca formal statement on the meaning of the Eucharist in the life of the Church.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe measure passed by a vote of 168 to 55, with six abstentions,\u201d CNA noted. \u201cA simple majority was required for passage of the action item. The U.S. bishops\u2019 doctrine committee will now lead the process of drafting the document, with input from other conference committees. A draft of the document could be ready to be debated, amended, and voted on by the bishops at their November meeting \u2013 which is currently planned to be held in person in Baltimore, Maryland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly 55 bishops voted against the motion, fewer than signed a letter to the conference president Archbishop Gomez, last month, calling for the vote to be dropped from the agenda altogether,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pillarcatholic.com\/p\/breaking-usccb-votes-to-draft-document\">The Pillar added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/a-unique-problem-u-s-catholic-bishops-may-demand-biden-other-pro-abortion-politicians-stop-taking-communion\">Daily Wire reported back in April<\/a>, members of the USCCB had suggested that the group draft such a teaching document in order to provide guidance to bishops and priests on how to best counsel \u2014 and, in some cases, handle \u2014 publicly pro-choice politicians like Biden and Pelosi who may want to receive the Eucharist, despite being in open defiance of Church teaching on the subject of abortion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArchbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, who is chairman of the USCCB\u2019s Committee on Pro-Life Activities, has publicly and repeatedly rebuked Biden for supporting abortion, going so far as to say the president \u2018should stop defining himself as a devout Catholic,\u201d the Daily Wire noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause President Biden is Catholic, it presents a unique problem for us,\u201d Naumann told the AP. \u201cIt can create confusion. \u2026 How can he say he\u2019s a devout Catholic and he\u2019s doing these things that are contrary to the church\u2019s teaching?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Catholic Church, of course, believes abortion is a grave evil, and support for abortion is a serious sin \u2014 an \u201copen defiance\u201d of Church teaching. Anyone in such a state of sin cannot receive Communion in the Catholic church.<\/p>\n<p>The topic, though, as The Pillar noted, \u201chugely contentious\u201d and complex, particularly given that denying Communion is a serious issue, and it is not particularly clear what \u201cobjective conditions\u201d render \u201ca person unfit for admission to the Eucharist.\u201d There is also \u201can evident discomfort among some bishops about directive use of episcopal authority and practical disagreement about how to engage with a Catholic president who advocates for policy contrary to Catholic teaching.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These issues will likely be ironed out in the drafting process, over the next 150 days.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After hours of debate and weeks of concern, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) voted, overwhelmingly, on Friday to draft a \u201cteaching document\u201d addressing the issue of Communion &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280707,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1288086647.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"US Catholic Bishops Approve Drafting Of \u2018Eucharistic Document\u2019 Addressing Communion For Pro-Abortion Politicians","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1288086647.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"US Catholic Bishops Approve Drafting Of \u2018Eucharistic Document\u2019 Addressing Communion For Pro-Abortion Politicians","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}