I hate to say "told you so," but the opportunity comes along so infrequently I feel obliged to take it when I can. The plan among U.S. Catholic bishops to bludgeon Pres. Biden with a statement on the Eucharist that would highlight his unworthiness to receive has flopped, more or less as I predicted. Contrary to the New York Times, I never thought this was an effort to deny Biden communion itself. As the Times and any other intelligent observer knows, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops can't set policy for the reception of sacraments. That's done by the bishops in their respective dioceses, and carried out (sometimes not) by individual priests presiding in worship. Certainly no one understands better than the members of USCCB the limits on their power to excommunicate. Not even Cardinal Chaput would think they could bar POTUS from receiving in his home parish.