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Then-Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Joe Biden arrives to attend a morning service at St. Joseph's on the Brandywine Catholic Church in Greenville, Del., Sept. 20, 2020. Church observers had speculated Biden and other Catholic politicians who support legal abortion would be banned from receiving Communion in a statement on the Eucharist from the U.S. bishops. But such sanctions were not part of the document they approved during their fall general assembly in Baltimore. (CNS/Reuters/Mark Makela)
Then-Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Joe Biden arrives to attend a morning service at St. Joseph's on the Brandywine Catholic Church in Greenville, Del., Sept. 20, 2020.