What Joe Biden (and all American Catholics) owe Jesuit John Courtney Murray
By Massimo Faggioli, It is not a coincidence that a prominent U.S. Jesuit, the Rev. Leo J. O’Donovan, former president of Georgetown University, will deliver the invocation at the inauguration of President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the second Catholic president in the history of the United States. In the past few years, particularly during the pontificate of Pope Francis, the Society of Jesus has been the most important and visible reserve of intellectual and spiritual power for global Catholicism. But it can be seen also as a déjà vu moment in American presidential history. John F. Kennedy,...