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The Catholic church, abortion, President Biden and Communion

President Biden believes a woman's right to choose whether she has an abortion or not should be protected and he fights to keep access to abortion legal. This stance has prompted outrage from some Catholic leaders.

Now some of them say that Mr Biden should not be allowed to take Communion and that will be voted on in a meeting of Catholic Bishops which started yesterday. Will that happen? Tom Reese is Senior Analyst at Religion News Service, author of Inside the Vatican: The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church.

(Picture: President Biden with a priest outside a Catholic Church in the US, May 2021. Credit: Reuters)

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