{"id":878856,"date":"2021-10-14T11:13:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T15:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=878856"},"modified":"2021-10-14T11:13:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T15:13:57","slug":"joe-biden-to-meet-with-pope-francis-at-the-vatican-white-house-announces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-to-meet-with-pope-francis-at-the-vatican-white-house-announces\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden To Meet With Pope Francis At The Vatican, White House Announces"},"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%2Fjoe-biden-to-meet-with-pope-francis-at-the-vatican-white-house-announces%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=878856&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--><aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"45.35570626754\">\n<p>President Joe Biden will meet in-person with Pope Francis at the end of October, White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will make the visit prior to participating in the G20 Leaders Summit in Rome from October 30-31. Biden identifies himself as a devout Catholic, though he <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/08\/07\/joe-biden-donald-trump-roman-catholic-church\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">publicly rejects<\/a> the Church\u2019s teachings on abortion. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/15\/white-house-catholic-francis-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: White House Denies Report That Vatican Canceled A Meeting Between Biden And Pope Francis)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president and Dr. Biden will also visit Vatican City and have an audience with His Holiness Pope Francis on October 29,\u201d Psaki announced. \u201cThey will discuss working together on efforts grounded in respect for fundamental human dignity, including ending the COVID-19 pandemic, tackling the climate crisis, and caring for the poor.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7256019\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"35\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7256019\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Pope Francis delivers the Sunday Angelus prayer from the window of his study overlooking St Peter\u2019s Square at the Vatican on August 1, 2021. (Photo by Andreas SOLARO \/ AFP) (Photo by ANDREAS SOLARO\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Biden met with Pope Francis once before as vice president when Francis visited the U.S. in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s relationship with The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has been fraught since gaining office. The USCCB <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/18\/joe-biden-catholic-catholic-church\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voted in June<\/a> to move forward with a statement clarifying the meaning of Communion, including whether pro-abortion politicians such as Biden should be denied it. The statement is still forthcoming, however.<\/p>\n<p>Francis has not publicly weighed in on his stance on denying Communion to pro-abortion politicians. He himself has said he <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/15\/pope-francis-abortion-communion-pro-abortion-catholic-church\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has never denied any person Communion<\/a>, though is not aware of any time a pro-abortion politician came to him for Communion.<\/p>\n<p>The USCCB has also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/25\/usccb-biden-vatican-media-communion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">denied reports<\/a> that the Vatican asked it to hold off on drafting a statement on Communion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Holy See did encourage the bishops to engage in dialogue and broad consultation,\u201d the USCCB said in late June. \u201cLast week\u2019s meeting was the first part of that process. It is important to note that collaboration and consultation among the bishops will be key in the drafting of this document.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden will meet in-person with Pope Francis at the end of October, White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced Thursday.Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-878856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878856","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=878856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}