On the face of it, American Catholics ought to be enthusiastic about the impending inauguration of only the second Catholic president in U.S. history, exactly six decades after John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the first.
Yet while Joe Biden displays his faith as prominently as one of his bright blue campaign signs, America s more than 51 million Catholics are sharply divided in their views.
To Jim Kelly, a retired engineer from Westwood, Biden is Catholic in name only. His policies aren t Catholic at all, he said, noting the former vice president s support for same-sex marriage and abortion rights.
Joe Biden will be only the second Catholic president – and a conundrum for the faithful
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On the face of it, American Catholics ought to be enthusiastic about the impending inauguration of only the second Catholic president in U.S. history, exactly six decades after John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the first.
Yet while Joe Biden displays his faith as prominently as one of his bright blue campaign signs, America s more than 51 million Catholics are sharply divided in their views.
To Jim Kelly, a retired engineer from Westwood, Biden is Catholic in name only. His policies aren t Catholic at all, he said, noting the former vice president s support for same-sex marriage and abortion rights.