Catholic bishops this week will discuss if Biden qualifies for Communion.

[TJ in Oregon]

A few things to note here.... these are discussions of drafts of a document and as far as I can tell no one is quite sure what the final document is going to say. Also, the USCCB, strangely enough, is not an authoritative body.* So presumably liberal priests and bishops will just do whatever they want anyways. That being said, the establishment of some kind of uniform standards for when a politician should be denied communion should probably be established. If one is, most priests and bishops will probably follow it instead of making arbitrary decisions seemingly at random. I suspect when this is all done it will also include more things than just abortion. It's clear that where things are now is not very healthy and both sides of the aisle are simply planning to engage in relentless whataboutism to pwn their ideological opponents rather than to accept the Church's teachings with humility. No doubt it will be a bumpy ride and lots of people are going to insult each other on the internet, but I think in the end it will help somewhat to break the current race to the bottom.

*In the Catholic Church, authority is held in a particular diocese by a particular bishop and not to any national bishops' conference. For many years traditionalists often held that bishops' should not even exist. Also before anyone accuses them of hypocrisy, traditionalist is not a synonym for either conservative or Republican in any serious ideological sense. One of the structural things Pope Francis has tried to do is give more control to national bishops' conferences, which is somewhat controversial in certain circumstances but it unknown and irrelevant to > 99% of the people discussing this.