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“A Private Matter”: Joe Biden’s Very Public Clash with his own Church

posted on September 8, 2021

Politico Magazine’s Ruby Cramer reports that President Biden’s relationship with his Catholic faith has both helped him electorally and drawn ire from his opponents. She writes, “He is a president who built his life in politics around the idea of faith, not in some vague way, but in a specifically Catholic way.” Biden has recently clashed with American church leaders over his support for abortion rights. Cramer writes, “It is a debate in full public view, a collision of religion and politics never seen in the American presidency—with a clash between his stance on abortion and church dogma now unavoidable.”

Read at Politico Magazine