Pope considers receiving Joe Biden a day before US bishops debate his possible excommunication

The North American bishops challenge the Pope, and Francis responds. On May 7, the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Spaniard Luis Ladaria, expressly asked the president of the US episcopate, José Gómez, to stop the debate on a document on "the dignity of Catholic politicians in receive communion ", sponsored by the most conservative sector of the leadership of the American church and that would serve to promote the excommunication of Joe Biden for supporting abortion.
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