Religion and Politics

Joe Biden Speaks About Faith and Curing Cancer at the Vatican

The New York Times‘ Gardiner Harris reports that Vice President Joe Biden discussed his faith and the role the Catholic Church can play in curing cancer at the Third International Regenerative Medicine Conference at the Vatican on Friday. Both Biden and Pope Francis called for participants to seek cures that might not be profitable in order to help as many people as possible. “This is why the globalization of indifference must be countered by the globalization of empathy,” Francis said.

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