This article appears in the USCCB Fall Assembly 2020 feature series. View the full series.
Signaling what could become a showdown between the leadership of the U.S. Catholic Church and the second Catholic president in U.S. history, the head of the U.S. bishops' conference issued a warning to President-elect Joe Biden, saying his position on abortion rights creates a "difficult and complex situation."
"When politicians who profess the Catholic faith support [abortion rights], there are additional problems," said Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. "Among other things, it creates confusion among the faithful about what the Catholic Church actually teaches on these questions."
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