In a reporting article yesterday evening, one of the Washington Post’s religion reporters attempted to explain a debate within the U.S. Catholic Church but instead revealed her own misunderstandings of Catholicism as it relates to American politics.

The article, written by Michelle Boorstein, is meant to serve as a report on the debate amongst U.S. Catholic bishops about whether Catholic leaders who publicly contradict Church teaching — namely, President Joe Biden — should be permitted to receive the Eucharist when attending Mass.

Because Catholics believe that the Eucharist is the real body and blood of Jesus, only Catholics in full communion with the Church — i.e. those who are baptized and in a state of grace, and who are in communion with the Church’s moral teaching — may receive communion at Mass.

Rather than outline the theological contours of the debate or explain the reasoning of those who believe Biden should not receive communion due to his advocacy for elective abortion, Boorstein frames the issue as a matter of left-wing vs. right-wing factions within the Church hierarchy, as if Catholic teaching and practice is reducible to the simplistic categories of American politics.

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