{"id":942867,"date":"2021-10-30T19:43:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T23:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=942867"},"modified":"2021-10-30T19:43:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T23:43:58","slug":"catholic-league-skeptical-of-pathological-liar-joe-bidens-account-of-meeting-with-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/catholic-league-skeptical-of-pathological-liar-joe-bidens-account-of-meeting-with-pope-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic League Skeptical of \u2018Pathological Liar\u2019 Joe Biden\u2019s Account of Meeting with 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%2Fcatholic-league-skeptical-of-pathological-liar-joe-bidens-account-of-meeting-with-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=942867&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--><p class=\"subheading\">ROME \u2014 Catholic League President Bill Donohue said Friday he maintains a \u201chealthy skepticism\u201d about President Joe Biden\u2019s unconfirmed claim that Pope Francis called him a \u201cgood Catholic\u201d and encouraged him to \u201ckeep receiving Communion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden met with Pope Francis in the Vatican for approximately 75 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ansa.it\/sito\/notizie\/topnews\/2021\/10\/29\/casa-bianca-tra-biden-e-il-papa-ce-un-vero-feeling_ad5f141b-ae89-49de-8b7c-2ebd9ca95653.html\">minutes<\/a> Friday morning, after which he was asked by reporters if the issue of abortion had arisen during their meeting.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cNo, it didn\u2019t,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/29\/joe-biden-pope-francis-told-me-i-was-a-good-catholic-and-to-keep-receiving-communion\/\">said<\/a>. \u201cIt came up \u2014 we just talked about the fact that he was happy I was a good Catholic and I should keep receiving Communion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From what we \u201cknow about the Vatican\u2019s handling of the meeting and Biden\u2019s long record of lying about many important matters, we are maintaining a healthy skepticism about the president\u2019s rendition,\u201d Dr. Donohue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicleague.org\/what-pope-said-to-biden-is-unconfirmed\/\">states<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pulling no punches, Donohue writes that \u201cBiden is a pathological liar,\u201d which makes his account of the meeting dubious at best.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The president\u2019s promiscuous relationship with the truth goes back over 50 years, Donohue observes, and involves repeated episodes of plagiarism, reversal of facts, misremembering, and arrant tale-telling, all of which have been confirmed by left-wing outlets like Slate and the <em>Washington Post<\/em>, which are firmly in Biden\u2019s corner.<\/p>\n<p>In 1987, for instance, Slate recounted that Biden had not only plagiarized a speech by British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock, but had appropriated personal biographical facts from Kinnock\u2019s life as if they were his own.<\/p>\n<p>Biden \u201cplagiarized from speeches given by Robert Kennedy, John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey,\u201d Donohue notes, and \u201cconfessed to receiving an \u2018F\u2019 in a law school course because he plagiarized five pages from a published article.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Post<\/em> documented a series of lies Biden told about his academic credentials, including claims he had graduated with \u201cthree degrees\u201d from the University of Delaware. (He received one.) He also stated that he graduated at the top of his class at Syracuse Law School. (He was 76th in a class of 85.)<\/p>\n<p>More recently, the <em>Post<\/em> also published a list of 78 false or misleading statements Biden had made in his first 100 days in office.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>It is for these reasons, Donohue said, \u201cthat we are skeptical of Biden\u2019s account of what the pope said to him at their meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15720858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Pope-Francis-stern-stare-getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15720858\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Pope-Francis-stern-stare-getty.jpg\" alt=\"Pope Francis looks on as he addresses reporters aboard the plane bringing him back following a two-day trip to Morocco on March 31, 2019. (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI \/ POOL \/ AFP) (Photo credit should read ALBERTO PIZZOLI\/AFP via Getty Images\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">ALBERTO PIZZOLI\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>For its part, the Vatican has declined to comment on Biden\u2019s rendition of what transpired between him and the pope. Asked if the pope had said Biden should keep receiving Holy Communion, Matteo Bruni, the director of the Holy See press office, said, \u201cI would consider it a private conversation, and it is limited to what was said in the public statement,\u201d which made no mention of such a comment.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18533658\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"38\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Joe-Biden-Pope-Francis-Vatican-table-ap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18533658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Joe-Biden-Pope-Francis-Vatican-table-ap.jpg\" alt=\"US President Joe Biden, left, talks with Pope Francis as they meet at the Vatican, Friday, Oct. 29, 2021. President Joe Biden is set to meet with Pope Francis on Friday at the Vatican, where the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s two most notable Roman Catholics plan to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and poverty. The president takes pride in his Catholic faith, using it as moral guidepost to shape many of his social and economic policies. (Vatican Media via AP)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">US President Joe Biden, left, talks with Pope Francis as they meet at the Vatican, Friday, Oct. 29, 2021 (Vatican Media via AP).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME \u2014 Catholic League President Bill Donohue said Friday he maintains a \u201chealthy skepticism\u201d about President Joe Biden\u2019s unconfirmed claim that Pope Francis called him a \u201cgood Catholic\u201d and encouraged &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"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-942867","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\/942867","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\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942867\/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=942867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}