Because the U.S. media has told me how Joe Biden is the most devout Catholic to ever walk the earth, I can only assume that the Pope is committing a grievous sin here in the eyes of WaPo and must be excommunicated immediately:

While there is no meeting currently scheduled between Pope Francis and Biden, the Catholic News Agency reported that the U.S. President had requested to attend a morning mass led by the Pope as part of their first meeting.

Apparently, Joe is too woke for even Francis:

President Joe Biden's attendance at early morning Mass with Pope Francis was nixed from an early plan for the first meeting of both leaders, a reliable Vatican source told Catholic News Agency.

REQUEST DENIED!

The White House vehemently denied the report, because of course they would. It's like being in high school and dealing with the humiliation after you ask the most popular kid in school to prom and they say no.

A public-affairs officer at the U.S. embassy to the Vatican said Biden has no plans to visit Rome this week, which is technically true since the Pope probably snubbed him!

The Catholic News Agency had this to say:

The President's entourage had originally requested for Biden to attend Mass with the pope early in the morning, but the proposal was nixed by the Vatican after considering the impact that Biden receiving Holy Communion from the pope would have on the discussions the USCCB is planning to have during their meeting starting Wednesday, June 16.

The U.S. bishops are slated to vote on creating a committee that would draft a document about Eucharistic coherence.

"Eucharistic coherence" is Catholic for "you don't get to call yourself Catholic while doing things that specifically violate Catholic teaching."

This is the definition bishops came up with in 2007:

We must adhere to ‘eucharistic coherence,' that is, be conscious that they cannot receive holy communion and at the same time act with deeds or words against the commandments, particularly when abortion, euthanasia, and other grave crimes against life and family are encouraged. This responsibility weighs particularly over legislators, heads of governments, and health professionals.

Biden, whose platform radically celebrates abortion and every flavor of sexual preference under the sun while attempting to remove the right of anyone to object to such things, definitely fits in that category.

He not only violates the teachings of the Catholic Church, he leads from a position that's counter to nearly every mandate within Scripture itself. You know, the types of things God repeatedly calls "detestable" and an "abomination."

There's a reason multiple Catholic leaders have repeatedly called him out.

But he's apparently the most Catholickly Catholic ever, so what do I know??