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The bishops of the United States have approved the preparation of a document that will establish the conditions and requirements under which the country's politicians who support abortion can receive communion.

It is a decision that directly affects the Head of State and Government, President Joe Biden, who is Catholic, goes to Mass every Sunday, and opposes abortion, but only on a personal level.

The decision was approved this Friday, at a virtual meeting of the US Bishops' Conference, by a large majority.

168 prelates

voted

in favor,

and 55 did so against. It is expected that the document will be presented for approval at the Conference meeting to be held in November, and that, if everything goes according to plan, it will be face-to-face.

According to the US media, the practical scope of the decision will be

limited,

since it will leave to each bishop the responsibility of deciding whether or not politicians who support abortion can receive the Eucharist.

Actually, that's something they already have.

When he had to travel during his time as vice president with Barack Obama and in the last election campaign, Biden always sent an emissary in advance to the cities where he was going to spend Sunday to identify parishes that were willing to give him communion.

The current president is the

second Catholic

to get to that position.

But the previous member of that religion to sit in the Oval Office, John F. Kennedy, lived in a time when abortion was illegal in America.

That is not the case with Biden, who has also taken steps to expand abortion, something that for many Catholics is unacceptable. As the Bishop of Kansas City, Joseph Naumann, who chairs the Pro-Life Activities Committee of the Bishops' Conference, told the Associated Press news agency in April, "The fact that President Biden is a Catholic

presents a unique problem for It

can create confusion. How can you say you are a devout and practicing Catholic and at the same time do these things that are contrary to the Magisterium of the Church? "

In the realm of practical realities, however, Biden's religious life would not be affected.

The president resides in Washington, which is under the jurisdiction of Archbishop Wilton Daniel Gregory, who has already said that the president

will be able to continue receiving the Eucharist

in churches.

In the same vein, Bishop W. Francis Malooly, of the diocese of Wilmington, which is in the state of Delaware, has spoken, where Biden and his wife Jill spend most of the weekends.

The bishops' decision is yet another sign of America's division over abortion.

The Supreme Court has admitted a lawsuit in relation to the limitation of this practice in the state of Mississippi, which wants to allow it only in the

first 15 weeks

of pregnancy, while in the country it is understood that abortion is legal until the twenty-fifth week, in accordance with the ruling of that same Court of 1973 that legalized what for some is the interruption of pregnancy and, for others, murder of children in the womb of their mothers.

The position of the Episcopal Conference also reflects the progressive displacement of Catholic voters - the vast majority, Hispanics, and of Italian and Irish descent, like Biden himself - from the orbit of the Democratic Party, of which they had been a part for decades. , to that of the Republican.

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