Joe Biden Archives

Biden’s communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict

Oct 30, 2019

A Catholic priest’s denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates.

By Meg Kinnard and Elana Schor

Biden denied Communion at Mass during campaign stop in South Carolina

Oct 29, 2019

Former Vice President Joe Biden attended the 9 a.m. Mass at St. Anthony Church Oct. 27 and when he presented himself to receive the Eucharist was refused by the pastor.

By Deirdre C. Mays

Biden’s abortion shift tests the politics of his faith

Sep 17, 2019

Catholic Democrats have often wrestled to reconcile their church’s teachings with their party’s politics. That tension has been especially acute when it comes to abortion.

By Elana Schor

No stranger to the Vatican, Biden has a rocky past with US church

Apr 27, 2019

Now that Joseph Biden has officially tossed his hat into the ring for the Democratic nomination as President of the United States, he’s quickly become his party’s presumptive front-runner and the highest-profile Catholic running for office. However, despite frequent visits to the Vatican in the past, he faces serious hurdles from leaders of the U.S. church.

By Elise Harris

Dissent’s just fine, but what Tim Kaine offers is hypocrisy

Sep 14, 2016

There’s no problem with dissent in Catholicism, which is like a big Italian family, but the hypocrisy of invoking one’s faith to defend positions clearly at odds with Church teaching make politicians such as Tim Kaine, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi hypocrites.

By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

Philly prelate says both Clinton and Trump have ‘astonishing flaws’

Aug 13, 2016

Philadelphia Archbishop says that both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have “astonishing flaws” as presidential candidates, a fact he calls “depressing and liberating at the same time” for Catholic voters — liberating, he says, because it’s easier to ignore the “tribal loyalty chants” of both parties.

By Crux Staff