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Allen: Texas priest explains why Catholic bishops confront Biden, others about abortion

In this June 25, 2021 file photo, President Joe Biden speaks during an event to commemorate Pride Month, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. New leaders of the American and Israeli governments are resetting their countries' relationship after years of divisiveness. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
In this June 25, 2021 file photo, President Joe Biden speaks during an event to commemorate Pride Month, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. New leaders of the American and Israeli governments are resetting their countries' relationship after years of divisiveness. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) In this June 25, 2021 file photo, President Joe Biden speaks during an event to commemorate Pride Month, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. New leaders of the American and Israeli governments are resetting their countries' relationship after years of divisiveness. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

By Cynthia M. Allen / The Fort Worth Star-Telegram via Tribune News Service 4 min read

FORT WORTH, Texas – The Rev. Jim Gigliotti of St. Andrew Catholic Church in Fort Worth cares enough about people to confront them in their sin.

That’s arguably what he was doing in November when he used his pulpit to admonish faculty at the parish’s affiliated school for celebrating President Joe Biden’s victory on the school Facebook page, in violation of diocesan policy.

Biden’s unwavering support for the grave sin of abortion, Gigliotti explained at the time, means he’s “not a good Catholic at all.”

The state of Biden’s immortal soul garnered attention from the secular world recently after an overwhelming majority of the U.S. Catholic Bishops voted to draft guidelines for receiving the Eucharist. If adopted, they could deny Biden and other Catholic politicians Communion over their support for abortion.

According to Catholic teaching, Catholics should not receive the Eucharist (which for Catholics is the body and blood of Christ) in a state of grave or mortal sin. And publicly, enthusiastically and consistently supporting abortion would certainly qualify.