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60 years after JFK, Biden as second Catholic president offers a refresh in church's political role

  • Written by Steven P. Millies, Associate Professor of Public Theology and Director of The Bernardin Center, Catholic Theological Union
imageJoe Biden quoted Pope Francis in speeches ahead of the Nov. 3 election.Mindy Schauer/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images

Running to become the first Catholic president of the United States in 1960, Sen. John F. Kennedy told an audience of wary Protestant ministers that “if the time should come … when my office...

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