“Each time when President Biden is spoken of as a Roman Catholic, I wonder what in fact Joe Biden’s Catholicity is like and about,” Metropolitan Hilarion, the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, said in an interview. “The Roman Catholic Church is against abortions, whereas President Biden supports them.”

“A man cannot claim to be a Catholic while breaking the fundamental norms of Christian morality and calling others for doing the same,” he added. “The Roman Catholic Church, like the Orthodox Church, opposes abortions.”