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FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Wilmington, Pennsylvania-Nov. 8, 2020-President-elect Joe Biden, center, visits the grave of his son Beau Biden after attending church at St. Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church in Wilmington, Delaware on Nov.8, 2020. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times/TNS) Some U.S. Catholic leaders give president a frosty reception WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden – only the second Roman Catholic in U.S. history elected to the country’s highest political office – keeps a picture in the Oval Office of himself with Pope Francis. No doubt Biden can count on partn...

WASHINGTON —  President Biden — only the second Roman Catholic in U.S. history elected to the country’s highest political office — keeps a picture in the Oval Office of himself with Pope Francis. No doubt Biden can count on partnership with the progressive pope as he reverses many Trump-era policies to battle climate change and reform immigration. But support within his own country’s Catholic Church looks more tenuous, and Biden has been given a surprisingly hostile reception from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops under the guidance of Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez...

Pope Francis is a Biden fan, but some U.S. Catholic leaders give president a frosty reception Gomez, affiliated with the conservative Opus Dei sect, also met opposition from several U.S. bishops, who said he failed to run the statement by all members of the conference as is required. San Diego’s Bishop Robert McElroy indirectly criticized Gomez. “Most importantly of all,” McElroy said in his own post-inauguration statement, U.S. bishops “should encourage our new president: by entering into a relationship of dialogue, not judgment; collaboration, not isolation; truth in charity, not ha...

What Democrats’ Georgia wins mean for Senate’s future, Biden agenda Democratic Senate candidates Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are seen in this combination photo. (CNS combination photo/Mike Segar and Brian Snyder of Reuters) By Mark Pattison • Catholic News Service • Posted January 11, 2021 WASHINGTON (CNS) — The wins by Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock, both Democrats, in the Jan. 5 U.S. Senate runoff elections in Georgia will give Democrats the White House and both houses of Congress. But precisely how that will play out is far less clear, noted three professors at...