Biden's Claim of What Pope Said to Him Is Raising All Kinds of Doubt

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Biden's Claim of What Pope Said to Him Is Raising All Kinds of Doubt
By Nick Arama | Oct 30, 2021 11:15 AM ET

Joe Biden met with Pope Francis yesterday, as we reported.

But press access to any live coverage of the meeting was cut off. Even the Vatican — which was going to broadcast the meeting and usually broadcasts such meetings with foreign leaders — decided against it. They just provided edited video later for the press.

Some of the press was disturbed about the fact that they were cut out.

From Fox News:

    Washington Times White House reporter Jeff Murdock fumed the summit was an “embarrassment for the freedom of the press” and took a shot at White House press secretary Jen Psaki.

    “Today’s Biden-Pope Francis summit is an embarrassment for the freedom of the press,” he wrote. “[Psaki] dodged questions about press access and then meekly hid behind the Vatican, throwing up her hands with a “don’t blame us” attitude.”

Even the Washington Post’s reporter covering Biden was upset.

https://twitter.com/chicoharlan/status/1453993014502649857

There was speculation as to why they were cut out, including that perhaps that Biden’s handlers didn’t want any gaffes with the approach to be caught on video. As we noted, though, even with the edited video they released, they still showed Joe rambling at the Pope and even confusing his translator at one point.

But then this enabled Biden to cast the meeting any way he wanted. He did exactly that — claiming that they didn’t talk about abortion, that the Pope told him that he was “a good Catholic” who “should keep receiving Communion.”

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[skeeter]

Biden’s statement about the Pope approving of him taking communion has all the earmarks of another Lunchbox Joe Tall Tale.

Not that this Pope gives a crap about abortion or anything.

[catfish1957]

I am still trying to figure out a conversation between a POTUS and a Pope would devolve into the discussion of a baseball player who died 30 years ago.  It was like he was talking code.

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Details of Biden's Meeting With the Pope Paint a Bleak Picture
By Bonchie | Oct 30, 2021 1:45 PM ET

We are getting details about Joe Biden’s meeting with Pope Francis yesterday, and they are painting a bleak picture. For whom exactly depends on whether you think the president is lying or not.

According to Biden, not only was abortion not mentioned in the conversation, but the president was lauded as a “good Catholic” who is still clear to receive communion. That despite the fact that the Pope reiterated that abortion is murder just weeks ago.

RedState’s Nick Arama reported on the meeting earlier today.

https://twitter.com/Quicktake/status/1454420345096744967

While I have my issues with the Pope, this statement from Biden does not strike me as an accurate representation of the meeting. Would the leader of the Catholic Church really tell someone who supports abortion and flaunts a myriad of other required doctrines that they are a “good Catholic”? That seems absolutely crazy to consider, even if the Pope was respectful overall in his tone and tenor.

Still, is it that far-fetched to believe Biden is actually telling the truth here? It’s certainly not out of the realm of possibility given the current Pope’s more left-leaning stance toward the Church and politics in general. And if he is, it paints a bleak picture of the Catholic Church, at least insofar as its leadership goes.

Part of being a Christian is being truthful with people about the realities of sin. For any Christian leader to sit across from a president so drenched in it, up to and including the killing of babies in the womb, and not give that president the straight and level is disturbing. And to be sure, there have been other presidents who deserved to be called out as well, but that doesn’t absolve the Pope of his complicity here if he did, in fact, not even bring up abortion.

Further, even if the Pope believes that it is not his place to correct Biden in that type of meeting (who’s place is it, if not?), it’s certainly his place to support the Bishops who feel it is right to deny the president communion. Does Church doctrine matter or not? Because it sure feels like there are two different standards here, and I’m pretty sure God doesn’t have carve-outs for politicians.

Let’s all hope that Biden’s comment is just the president blowing smoke, something he’s known to do. Because if it’s true, and Pope Francis really did praise him as a “good Catholic” worthy of communion, then the Church has some serious problems.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/10/30/details-of-bidens-meeting-with-the-pope-paint-a-bleak-picture-n466398

[LegalAmerican]

Biden’s statement about the Pope approving of him taking communion has all the earmarks of another Lunchbox Joe Tall Tale.

Not that this Pope gives a crap about abortion or anything.

Both pedo's.