And sometimes in conversations with Gillespie at the end of Mass, Biden's public and private faith come together. Biden and Francis have met three times, all when Biden was vice president, according to the White House. The two men spoke on the phone during the transition, as well. Francis' audience with Biden at the Vatican on Friday will, of course, be a formal sitdown between two heads of state.
It will also be an opportunity for two kindred spirits to compare notes on common goals on global issues, as well as more basic parallels in their lives. No one else really thought they would be here. Biden was done. Francis shares two of the foreign policy priorities Biden emphasizes on trips like this: addressing climate change and taking on a rise in nationalism and populism.
When it comes to how this Catholic president's policies line up with Catholic teaching, Carr said Biden and Francis can divide things into three buckets:. The high-profile areas where Biden's policies are squarely at odds with church teaching — most notably, his support for abortion rights. Notably, he's done this even as a high-profile group of American Catholic bishops have taken the opposite approach, criticizing Biden's support for abortion rights and calling for him to be barred from receiving communion.
When several American bishops released a statement on the day Biden was inaugurated and slammed his support for abortion rights, the Vatican countered with a warmer, welcoming statement. As the push to bar Biden from communion got more attention in recent months — a formal report on the question will be released at an upcoming conference of American bishops — Francis made a point in a press conference to say he's never denied communion to anyone, ever.
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