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QUID EST VERITAS: What did the Pope Really say to the President?President Joe Biden does not have a reputation as a “truth-teller.” Mr. Biden said the armed forces generals all told him to pull out of Afghanistan without leaving a small force. Under oath in testifying to Congress the top generals contradicted the President. Mr. Biden didn’t really visit the border, as he claimed in a recent town hall. He only drove by. It’s been proven he did not visit the Tree of Life synagogue after the massacre as he claimed. Newsweek magazine calls it “tortured logic” that allows Joe...

Joe Biden’s meeting with Pope Francis will show abortion isn’t an important issue for the VaticanThis visit should break all illusions that there is hope for dialogue with liberal Catholics on this issue. Tragically, the visit of President Biden to the Holy Father will only serve to validate the indefensible pro-abortion positionJoe Biden and Pope FrancisMon Oct 25, 2021 - 4:37 pm EDTMon Oct 25, 2021 - 5:19 pm EDT (LifeSiteNews) – The Vatican has confirmed that President Biden will meet with Pope Francis when he travels to Europe for the G20 summit in Rome on Oct. 30–31. No details...

Biden Taps Heterodox Catholic to Represent US at Vatican Joe Donnelly is Biden’s idea of a sound Catholic. In early October, Joe Biden nominated Joe Donnelly, a former Indiana Senator, to serve as his ambassador to the Vatican. News coverage of the nomination has been misleading. “Biden nominates pro-life Democrat Donnelly as new Vatican ambassador,” says National Catholic Reporter. Donnelly is not pro-life, at least not in any consistent sense. “He has voted with Planned Parenthood Action Fund 67 percent of the time since he’s been in Congress,” reported the Indianapolis Star in 2018.Like Biden, Donnelly is a Democrat first...

Biden will meet with Pope Francis to discuss ‘human dignity,’ but abortion left off agendaBiden will discuss working together with Pope Francis on 'efforts grounded in respect for fundamental human dignity,' with no mention of the dignity of the unborn. (LifeSiteNews) — White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced Thursday that President Joe Biden will meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican on October 29 to discuss “working together on efforts grounded in respect for fundamental human dignity, including ending the COVID-19 pandemic, tackling the climate crisis, and caring for the poor.”Pope Francis’ and Biden’s shared “respect for fundamental human...

Top Vatican cardinal says Biden should not be denied CommunionCardinal Turkson says denying the sacrament should only take place in "extreme cases"ROME — U.S. President Joe Biden should not be denied Communion, said Cardinal Peter Turkson, warning that the denial of the sacrament should only take place in "extreme cases.""The Eucharist should not in any way become a weapon," Turkson said in an interview with AXIOS on HBO, which aired Oct. 3. "If you say somebody cannot receive Communion, you are basically doing a judgment that you are in a state of sin."When asked directly by journalist Mike Allen if...

Update: Vatican Refused June 15 Meeting, Morning Mass No Longer on the AgendaThe President's entourage had originally requested for President Biden to attend Mass with the Pope early in the morning, but the proposal was nixed by the Vatican Pope Francis and Joe Biden at the White House on September 23, 2015. (photo: David Lienemann / Public domain) Vatican June 15, 2021 Editor's Note: According to Vatican sources June 15, there is no meeting currently scheduled between Pope Francis and President Joe Biden. The story has been amended in light of this breaking news.VATICAN CITY — President Joe Biden's...

Vatican Warns U.S. Bishops: Don’t Deny Biden Communion Over AbortionROME — The Vatican has warned conservative American bishops to hit the brakes on their push to deny communion to politicians supportive of abortion rights — including President Biden, a faithful churchgoer and the first Roman Catholic to occupy the Oval Office in 60 years.But despite the remarkably public stop sign from Rome, the American bishops are pressing ahead anyway and are expected to force a debate on the communion issue at a remote meeting that starts on Wednesday.Some leading bishops, whose priorities clearly aligned with former President Donald J. Trump,...

US Bishops try to rein in the Biden administration, but the Vatican is all smilesThe pope has shown that he is willing to sidestep his American bishops to strengthen his relationship with Biden.Pope Francis, left, and John Kerry pose as they meet at the Vatican on May 15, 2021. Kerry, who is President Joe Biden’s special envoy on the climate, met privately with the pope Saturday, afterward calling Francis “a compelling moral authority on the subject of the climate crisis” who has been “ahead of the curve.” (Photo by Vatican Media)WASHINGTON (RNS) — When John Kerry, the White House’s special...

Pope Francis and the Pro-Abortion President (of Argentina)COMMENTARY: The visit of Argentinian President Alberto Fernández to Pope Francis on Thursday was curious — and embarrassing — on several levels.When Pope Francis thinks about Catholic politicians who promote abortion, it is likely that his first thought is about the president — not of the United States, but of his home country, Argentina. In a week where the duties of Catholic legislators regarding abortion was at the top of Vatican news, the visit of Argentinian President Alberto Fernández to Pope Francis on Thursday was curious on several levels.It was the first...

The Vatican Defends Biden on CommunionEt tu, Brute? This pontificate is rightly seen as a repudiation of the restorationist priorities of Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. Perhaps nowhere is this clearer than on the matter of long-neglected canon law. Discussions about it had intensified under those two previous pontificates. It appeared, for example, that the Church, after many years of laxity, was on the cusp of finally applying canon law to pro-abortion Catholic politicians. Pope Benedict XVI, who was on record favoring a denial of Communion to them, spoke of the “pseudo-pastoral” claims made by progressive churchmen...

Senior Biden Administration Officials Participating in High-Level Vatican Conference on FridayVATICAN CITY — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, President Biden’s climate envoy John Kerry, and the heads of the IMF, World Bank, and African Union will be taking part in a high-level Vatican conference on Friday on the theme “Dreaming of a Better Restart.” Hosted by the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences, the one-day meeting, which includes the participation of finance ministers from the US, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and Argentina, aims to build on recent inter-governmental efforts to combat inequality, climate change, and hunger following...

Vatican puts brakes on US bishops confronting problem of pro-abortion Biden receiving Holy CommunionYhe Vatican's doctrine head said that any policy from the US bishops on Communion for pro-abortion politicians would have to respect the 'prerogatives of the Holy See'UNITED STATES, May 10, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — The Vatican is warning the United States’ top bishop that a forthcoming policy on giving Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians who call themselves Catholic, such as President Joe Biden, may become a “source of discord” for the country’s episcopate and would unfairly target “only one category of Catholics.”In a May 7 letter to U.S....

Globalist Pope Francis Defends Joe Biden Over Abortion Policies – Says Plan by US Bishops to Rebuke Him Might Look “Divisive” – But Same Pope a Frequent Critic of TrumpBut this same Marxist pope holds his tongue in criticism of Obama or Joe Biden. KTLA reported:The head of the Vatican’s doctrine office is warning U.S. bishops to deliberate carefully and minimize divisions before proceeding with a possible plan to rebuke Roman Catholic politicians such as President Joe Biden for receiving Communion even though they support abortion rights.The strong words of caution came in a letter from Cardinal Luis Ladaria, prefect...

Joe Biden’s First 100 Days: Scandalous Actions on Abortion from Our Second Catholic PresidentPresident Biden cannot claim to be both a faithful Catholic and an abortion champion. He cannot have it both ways.President Joe Biden’s actions on abortion within his first 100 days follow a predictable pattern for recent Democratic presidents, but directly counter the Catholic Church’s teachings on life. The Biden administration has worked at breakneck speed to rescind previous pro-life protections and enact aggressive abortion policies – moves applauded by Planned Parenthood and mourned by the Catholic faithful in America; the second Catholic U.S. president has directly...