The vice president of the United States just walks around by himself, just another tourist, the people receiving him on official visits don’t even know who he is and have no way to differentiate him from the other guy?
This stuff is getting bizarre, on some threads we learn that the Pope wouldn’t even recognize the name or know that he is Catholic because being from Argentina, he is not very hip to things like who leads the United States and such.
This is nonsense. The Vice-President did not grab a plane ticket and jet off to Rome on his own, wearing a mustache so as to not be recognized as the most prominent Catholic in the most powerful nation on the planet, and as being on an official diplomatic mission representing the President of the United States and the US.
Not to mention that the media buzz was already going on about just this very subject before it even happened. Then you have Biden boasting that he did, indeed, receive the Eucharist. Had he been a genuinely humble and repentant Catholic, and asked if he had, he should have said something like, "That is a personal issue between me and Christ.", and refused to answer. Same with Pelosi. The fact that he not only DID present himself, after people had been alerted to Pope Francis' decision about pro-abortion public figures not being given communion, but publicly bragging about it only serves to rub Catholics' collective noses in the impotency of even the highest position of authority within their church. Biden and Pelosi will return to America unconvinced that their stands in favor of abortion will harm them spiritually OR politically and have no reason whatsoever to repent and change their actions. What a wasted opportunity!