JUST IN: Asked if the issue of abortion came up during his meeting with Pope Francis, Pres. Biden responded, 'No, it didn’t...We just talked about the fact that he was happy I was a good Catholic and I should keep receiving Communion.' Read more:
on Friday, the first time in more than half a century that a Roman Catholic U.S. leader has met at the Vatican with the head of the Catholic Church.Pope Francis meets U.S. President Joe Biden at the Vatican, Oct. 29, 2021.Vatican Media/AFP via Getty Images
Biden, only the second Catholic elected president after John Fitzgerald Kennedy, spoke of the moment's significance last month. "It has the U.S. seal in the front. ... I know my son would want me to give this to you because on the back of it, I have the state of Delaware in the 261st Unit my son served with," Biden said.
"They've known each other for the entire papacy. And this will not be their first meeting, which I think makes it fairly unique in American presidential history, it may be even in papal history that these two guys know each other to a degree that no other analogous pair do." said Casey, who served as a special representative for religion, and global affairs to Secretary of State John Kerry during the Obama administration.
"He came in. We had 16 family members there, and he didn't just speak about Beau, he spoke in detail about Beau, about who he was and about family values and about forgiveness and about decency. I mean, he is -- I am a great admirer of His Holiness, I really am," Biden continued.Yet, Biden's political views have sometimes put him at odds with the church on issues like gay marriage and abortion, issues that still divide him and Francis.
"He kept kidding me about how young I am," Biden told The Dialogue, the newspaper of the Wilmington, Delaware, diocese following the meeting. "I never miss Mass," Biden said last August."It is part of who I am. It's what gets me through the very difficult times in my life, and I believe it very strongly."
Biden, who campaigned on codifying Roe v. Wade, and announced his opposition to the Hyde Amendment, which prevents the use of public funds for abortions, during the 2020 campaign, has drawn a line between his public and private views of the issue. For his part, Biden brushed off the incident as a one-off event, saying,"it’s not a position I’ve found anywhere else, including from the Holy Father who gives me Communion."Pope Francis meets U.S. President Joe Biden at the Vatican, Oct. 29, 2021.
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