‘A Private Matter’: Joe Biden’s Very Public Clash With His Own Church

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Becoming president has brought Biden into direct conflict with conservative Catholics on the most polarizing issue of the moment: abortion.

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As a rule dating back to the election, the reporters who follow the president go everywhere with him but two places: inside his home and inside his church.

But if you had been standing outside the church when Biden’s car door swung open on this particular Saturday afternoon, you would have heard the shouting. You would have seen Moira Sheridan and David Williams outside the church gates, carrying faded posterboard signs. Both from Wilmington, both in their late 60s, both Catholics, they are a familiar presence at St. Joseph — they have come at least 20 times since the general election — though they rarely make the pool reports.

David Williams, 69, holds a sign that reads"Joe Biden equals Abortion euthanasia and infanticide" outside Saint Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church, in Greenville, Delaware, on July 10, 2021. President Biden was attending the Saturday Mass. | Caroline Gutman “I know you’ve never faced those choices,” Psaki shot back, “nor have you ever been pregnant, but for women out there who have faced those choices, this is an incredibly difficult thing … The president believes that right should be respected.”

When the campaign dedicated a prime-time speech to Biden’s faith at the Democratic convention last summer, Senator Chris Coons got the assignment. Coons grew up in Hockessin, Delaware, and now holds Biden’s old Senate seat, an office he once served as an intern. Even for a close friend, it was a difficult task. “I will confess I was initially a little hesitant,” Coons told me.

Now that Biden is in the White House, his role as a Catholic president, to the extent that his aides and supporters are willing to admit that such a role exists, is a subject that confounds people when asked to define it.

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Trump avoided this clash by never going to church 'hEs sUch uH ChRiScHuN!!'

Abortion is the murder of unborn babies in the womb and Joe Biden is not a true catholic if he supports such an abomination.

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you can be personally against abortion, do what yo u can to help girls/woman and still support the right to choose. usa has a separation of church and state,

What does that have to do with Biden meeting the Pope? Conservative Catholics hate this Pope. This ignorance is a reminder that Politico has no access to the Biden WH.

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Of the things Catholics should be protesting within their own church, this doesn’t rank high on the list. Isn’t there something just ghoulish about not allowing him to mourn in peace?

The Catholic Church needs to examine within themselves their own Bishops and Priest first. And Separate themselves from the state Why not look at the Catholics Who wanted executions in certain states During the last administration

“more than half of U.S. Catholics say abortion should be legal in all or most cases” - this sentence appears only after a headline that says he has a clash with “the church” and then about a million more words. It should have been in the first paragraph.

“As they see it, church doctrine demands” is a silly way to put it rubycramer—and those two parishioners do not speak “authoritatively“ about diddly squat

This article is absolute garbage. As a Catholic, I'm offended by those protesters- and I'm even more offended by the author's asinine nod towards them.

Exile Joe Biden for being pro- choice but wont exile priests for being pedophiles? 🤦‍♀️

I believe the term is 'hypocrite'. How can you believe in life in private, but endorse abortion in public?! I guess if you're a democrat, you can.

Excommunication.

You’ve got to love the Pope.

He's never hid it.

The Roman Catholic evil Church should mind there own business and follow the Word of God not the word of humans So many rapes and pedophile priests in this religion and they think they should have a voice in the faith I think not

Is there something I'm not getting? The Church also prohibits the death penalty, but I haven't heard a peep from any conservative Catholics about abolishing it.

Thank God President Biden isn’t a Christofascist.

Politico headline in a parallel universe: Biden's 'separation of Church and State' in his role as a President, rankles the fundamentalists in the sect while exposing the division and hypocrisy inherent in the religious institition itself.

Conservative Catholic? No such thing, only Catholics.

Separation of church and state.....

The pope told the American bishops to back off Biden. You know the real head of the Catholic Church is the pope not American bishops or killer crony Barrett or pardons for rapists and murders of nuns billy Barr. It is the pope and he told his American bishops to leave joe alone.

The pope is closer to Joe Biden’s position than to the American bishops or crony Barrett’s pro death anti science positions. They are defying their religious leader and lying about it. Trump who everyone knows would pay for an abortion is their true leader. Disgusting.

The same church that turned its head when priests were raping children?! Yeah. 😒

The church is about useless when it comes to integrity. They might want to sit this one out.

Remember when trump went to church one time because he was forced, and the MAGoofs think hes the most religious person ever?

Catholics conservative? Having grown up in the Catholic Church I'm convinced the only followers remaining have to be abject morons to be part of such a corrupt institution. When you add it up the Catholic Church has done infinitely more harm than good from its inception.

Please do not involve your religious beliefs into anything. We need you to work on Covid and stop trying to control women rights. Let me include anyone rights.

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