The man second to the most powerful man on earth, the Vice-President of the United States on a diplomatic mission to the Vatican, does not get lost in the crowd, and accidently given the most important symbolic act that the Christian world was waiting to see if it would be granted to the most prominent Catholic in America.
I think biden and pelosi are a lot more important to you than they are to either the Pope of the priest who was distributing Communion in their area.
Apparently, either he DID get lost in the crowd, so that none of the hundreds of sycophantic press photographers saw him receive, or he lied about having received.
That said, when Pope Benedict XVI last came to America, Biden did receive, but he did so from one of dozens of assisting priests. (The papal inauguration had 500 assisting priests!) The illicit reception of the eucharist prompted the Vatican to admonish those in grave sin to refrain.
“The man second to the most powerful man on earth, the Vice-President of the United States on a diplomatic mission to the Vatican, does not get lost in the crowd, and accidently given the most important symbolic act that the Christian world was waiting to see if it would be granted to the most prominent Catholic in America.”
The responsibility (and the blame) lies with his bishop.