{"id":36675,"date":"2021-06-21T18:10:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T01:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36675"},"modified":"2021-06-21T18:10:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T01:10:37","slug":"move-by-catholic-bishops-against-biden-brings-howls-of-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36675","title":{"rendered":"Move by Catholic bishops against Biden brings howls of hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Catholic bishops who voted to advance an effort that could deny\u00a0President Biden\u00a0communion over his stance on abortion are being accused of hypocrisy by critics of the decision.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, just the second Catholic U.S. president in history, regularly goes to church and touts his faith as a deeply personal aspect of his life.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops voted last week to proceed with drafting a formal statement on the meaning of communion, which will include whether pro-choice politicians like Biden should be denied it.<\/p>\n<p>The decision runs counter to the wishes of\u00a0Pope Francis, and has put the church at the center of a roiling debate over Biden, abortion and Catholicism.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic bishops who voted to advance&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36676,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36675\/revisions\/36676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}