{"id":949521,"date":"2021-11-01T12:58:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T16:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=949521"},"modified":"2021-11-01T12:58:59","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T16:58:59","slug":"joe-biden-receives-holy-communion-at-mass-in-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-receives-holy-communion-at-mass-in-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Receives Holy Communion at Mass in Rome"},"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\">18<\/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-receives-holy-communion-at-mass-in-rome%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=949521&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 President Joe Biden received Holy Communion at St. Patrick\u2019s Church in Rome this weekend, after claiming Pope Francis told him to keep taking part in the sacrament despite his promotion of abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Together with his wife, Jill, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/cruxnow.com\/vatican\/2021\/10\/biden-receives-communion-in-rome-amid-debate-in-us\/\">attended<\/a> a Saturday Vigil Mass at the English-language church that caters to the American Catholic community in Rome, the <em>Associated Press<\/em> (AP) reported.<\/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>Father Joe Ciccone, the vice rector of St. Patrick\u2019s parish and a member of the Paulist order, told AP that Biden\u2019s support for abortion and its relation to Holy Communion was not an issue for him or the parish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommunion is what brings us together in the Lord,\u201d the priest said. \u201cNone of us are pure and perfect. We struggle through life. We\u2019re all saints and sinners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd when you\u2019re a public figure you have to make certain decisions, especially in a democracy, on behalf of more than just your own personal feelings,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18552058\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"34\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236204487.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18552058\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236204487-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>U.S. President Joe Biden looks on from his car as he leaves the Vatican on October 29, 2021 following a private audience with the Pope. (TIZIANA FABI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Canon Law, the Catholic Church\u2019s legal code, stipulates that priests should deny Holy Communion under certain circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Those \u201cobstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to holy communion,\u201d Canon 915 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/archive\/cod-iuris-canonici\/eng\/documents\/cic_lib4-cann879-958_en.html\">states<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2004, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger \u2014 the future Pope Benedict XVI \u2014 issued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/culture\/library\/view.cfm?id=6041\">instructions<\/a>&nbsp;declaring that a Catholic politician supporting permissive abortion laws should not present himself for Holy Communion until he brings to an end the objective situation of sin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen these precautionary measures have not had their effect or in which they were not possible, and the person in question, with obstinate persistence, still presents himself to receive the Holy Eucharist, the minister of Holy Communion&nbsp;<em>must refuse to distribute it<\/em>,\u201d wrote Ratzinger, who was head of the Vatican\u2019s doctrinal office at the time (emphasis added).<\/p>\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 President Joe Biden received Holy Communion at St. Patrick\u2019s Church in Rome this weekend, after claiming Pope Francis told him to keep taking part in the sacrament despite &#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-949521","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\/949521","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=949521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949521\/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=949521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}