“Pope Benedict XVI and the Vatican requested that President Biden not attend Benedict’s funeral.”
What PolitiFact found
There's no evidence that President Biden was uninvited from Pope Benedict XVI’s funeral. The Vatican said Benedict wished for his funeral to be simple and confirmed it invited only two delegations from Italy and Germany.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Newsmax (media outlet) made this claim around 5 January 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 10 January 2023, 5 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Newsmax has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 0 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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