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President Biden just became the second Roman Catholic to hold the office, and he hasn’t kept his creed from the world.
Biden, his campaign, and scriptwriters for the Democratic National Convention relied heavily on his faith and personal devotion as a method of persuasion leading up to his election. He even quoted St. Augustine in his inaugural address. And so, to make sense of the Biden presidency will be to make sense of a nominally Catholic presidency.
It won’t be a particularly easy or seamless exercise for Catholics in the United States.
Aside from his creed, Biden hasn’t kept his position on abortion from the world either. The president withdrew his support for the Hyde Amendment during this election cycle a measure that prevents federal funds from going to most abortions. You just can’t win as a Democrat otherwise. He wants to codify
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