President Joe Biden speaks during an organizing event as Nikki Fried listens Tuesday, April 23, 2024, at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Fla. President Biden’s decision to make a sign of the cross during a Florida abortion-rights rally isn’t sitting well with the Catholic Church’s leadership.
To use the gesture in support of abortion is “sacrilegious” and “the desecration of the sign of the cross,” he said, as reported April 29 by the National Catholic Register. Ms. Fried criticized Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ signing of legislation to reduce the gestational limit for most abortions, saying “Ron DeSantis felt like he needed to run for president, so 15 weeks wasn’t good enough, we had to go to six weeks.”