Pope Francis Not Too Worked Up Over Whether Joe Biden Eats Jesus Cookies (Wonkette)

Pope Francis today seemed to tell American Catholic leaders who want to ban Joe Biden from taking communion that they might want to cool their jets,or at least stop blowing so hard on their incense burners. Francis didn’t directly take a position on whether Biden should be denied the sacrament because of his filthy pro-choice views, but he did suggest it’s not bishops’ job to be mixing up politics with their pastoral duties.

While flying back to Rome from a visit to Bratislava, Slovakia, the Vatican correspondent from the US Jesuit magazine America asked Francis about the controversy over whether pro-choice political leaders should be allowed to eat Christ incarnate in the holy host and wine. Since Biden’s election, conservative Catholics have called, sometimes very publicly, for that to be a transubstantial issue in the Church.

Francis said that well of course abortion is “homicide,” because no, he’s never going to change on that, but also said bishops shouldn’t be doing churchy stuff with politics in mind:

“If we look at the history of the church, we can see that every time the bishops did not act like shepherds when dealing with a problem, they aligned themselves with political life, on political problems,” he said.

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