Joe Biden s Catholicism is all about healing - now, he will lead a suffering America
Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post
Jan. 17, 2021
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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 America s hurting soul. His experiences with suffering and healing were well known, including the deaths of his wife and two of his children, his struggle against stuttering and many political losses. On a bigger stage than ever, Biden was trying to show the country how he did it.
The Globe and Mail Michael W. Higgins Published January 15, 2021
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Michael W. Higgins is interim
president of St. Mark’s and Corpus Christi Colleges at the University of British Columbia and a senior fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto.
It is often observed that U.S. president-elect Joe Biden wears his emotions on his sleeve. His capacity for empathy is on ready display. But it is not the only thing he carries on his sleeve. He has “Catholic” written all over him.
It is not that you can hear that “the dogma lives loudly within” him, as Senator Dianne Feinstein of California notoriously remarked of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett during her hearing for an earlier promotion. There is nothing dogmatic about Mr. Biden’s Catholicism; it is bred in the bone. It is as much a part of who he is as his Irish heritage, his Pennsylvania roots and his Delaware upbringing.