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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 Doctrine of the Faith issued guidance for U.S. bishops regarding how to handle the matter of Holy ...
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 with bishops on matters that were open to prudential judgement. Biden, on the other hand, has broken ...