Joe Biden is Catholic. I’m told that if you frequented St. Joseph’s on Capitol Hill during his Senate career, you’d see him there, lingering in the back during Mass on holy days of obligation.

But Biden has long publicly rejected his church’s teaching on abortion. This was sufficient reason for Rev. Robert Morey of St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, South Carolina, to deny Biden communion on Sunday, citing the former vice president’s long-standing and open “advocacy for abortion.”