At his 29th October meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden, Pope Francis missed a golden opportunity to exercise pastoral responsibility and moral guidance to an errant Catholic. Instead, with the eyes and ears of the world focused on them, the Holy Father gave the President a pass. In doing so, he neither served the President well, nor his worldwide Catholic Christian flock.
At the conclusion of the meeting, the White House issued a statement saying that the two discussed “advocacy for the world’s poor and those suffering from hunger, conflict, and persecution.” The Vatican’s statement said only that the meeting was “private,” and did not provide any details about the content of the meeting. According to independent press reports, the President and Holy Father discussed various matters, but abortion was not among them.
