According to a New York Times report yesterday:
President Biden told reporters on Friday that Pope Francis had called him a “good Catholic” and said he should keep receiving communion, an unexpected development that appeared to put a papal finger on the scale in a debate raging in the United States’ Roman Catholic Church over whether the president and other Catholic politicians who support abortion rights should be denied the sacrament....
Asked to confirm Mr. Biden’s remarks, Matteo Bruni, the Vatican spokesman, said the Holy See limited its comments to the news release about subjects discussed during the meeting and added, “It’s a private conversation.”
In a separate article today, the New York Times reports that President Biden received communion Saturday evening at St. Patrick’s Church in Rome, an English-speaking church dedicated to the American Catholic community. President Biden is in Italy for a meeting of G20 leaders, as well as for his meeting with Pope Francis.
