rarely take everything at face value. in this case, i think there's some overinterpretation going on about the significance of this vote. let's remember what the bishops were actually asked to vote on. it wasn't whether joe biden should get communion. it was whether they should draft a document on the eucharist. that's the samcrament where catholics receive the physical body and blood of jesus christ. the thing is recent polls suggest that a strong share of u.s. catholics according to one poll, it's two-thirds don't actually believe that. they think it's just a symbol or something. many bishops are concerned about that. now, this document will also contain a section on kind of the rules for receiving communion, which could have implications for joe biden, nancy pelosi, and others. but the thing of it is we don't know what they're going to say because we haven't seen a draft yet. so i think what actually this vote is a measure of is the bi bishops' concern with the eucharist. as far as the vatican goes, you