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Last week, I expressed concern that Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, had said in an interview that the pope did not understan...

Biden, the Bishops, and the New Face of Catholicism 02/02/2021 at 1:56 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White by Monica Migliorino Miller, Crisis, January 22, 2021 The Catholic Church in America has been thrust into a new and unprecedented crisis—namely the election of Joseph Biden to the presidency. If not dealt with properly, Biden’s presidency will cause serious damage to the very truth of what it means to be Catholic. Of course, I am referring to the fact that while Biden professes the C...

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about the Covid-19 response before signing executive orders for economic relief to Covid-hit families and businesses in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on January 22, 2021. | NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images President Joe Biden, who is only the second Catholic president of the United States, says he’s leaning on prayer to help him lead the nation through the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and economic crisis. “I dont want to pro...

As Biden prays for healing, Catholics clash over president’s faith © Matt Slocum/AP, FILE On his quest to heal a divided America, Joe Biden may first have to confront bitter division over his presidency from within his own church. Since his inauguration two weeks ago as the nations second Catholic president, Bidens devout Christian faith has become a new flashpoint within a church already reeling from years of moral and financial crises. "Im saying to our people, lets use this teaching...

Joe Bidens Catholicism is all about healing - now, he will lead a suffering America Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post Jan. 17, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Joe Biden with his granddaughters Natalie and Finnegan Biden on their way to morning church services at St. Joseph On the Brandywine in Wilmington, Del., on Oct. 25, 2020.Washington Post photo by Demetrius Freeman Pitching himself as president, Joe Biden promised to heal Americas hurting soul. His experiences with suffering and healing w...

Catholicism has always been how Biden has understood healing, others and himself. Now, Biden will lead a nation deeply in need of healing — with soaring coronavirus cases, thousands dying daily and millions out of work and hunkered down in isolation.

Wearing his trademark blue workman’s uniform, Discalced Carmelite Fr. Reginald Foster is photographed near the Vatican post office in this January 2007 file photo. (CNS/Chris Warde-Jones) In First Things, Jayd Henricks, former chief lobbyist for the U.S. bishops conference, demonstrates an almost clownish lack of theological sophistication in articulating "the crisis" posed by a Joe Biden presidency. He also gets his facts wrong, writing, "In 2004, the Congregation for the D...

12 . 23 . 20 As President-elect Joe Biden prepares his government, the bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States face a new challenge: a Catholic president who will publicly oppose his Church on fundamental moral issues—including life, marriage and family, and religious liberty. Biden is neither the first Catholic president, nor the first one to disagree with the Church on policy. But in President John F. Kennedy’s day, the issues were categorically different. Kennedy disagreed w...