Devout Roman Catholic Joe Biden is scheduled to meet Pope Francis in the Vatican on Friday at a time when the US president is under intense pressure for his conflicted position in the dispute over abortion rights.Biden goes to weekly Mass regularly and keeps a picture of the pope behind his desk in the Oval Office. He has said he is personally opposed to abortion but as an elected leader cannot impose his views.But conservative Catholic media and US conservative bishops have criticised him for that stand, with some saying he should be banned from receiving communion, the central sacrament of the faith.
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