When he explains himself to the world, it is through Catholic social doctrine and the Catholic institutions he loved: the nuns, the schools, the culture. When he ran for president at age 77, on the eve of his election, he said he still had вЂњa chipвЂќ on his shoulder, вЂњcoming from an Irish Catholic neighborhood where it wasnвЂ™t viewed as being such a great thing.вЂќ 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. When he was a young senator, it was anti-Catholic hate mail that showed up at the house in Delaware. Joe Biden, the nationвЂ™s first Catholic president in more than 60 years, grew up hearing that John F. There is no such thing as mainstream, there is no such thing as extreme, and there is no such thing as liberal - there is Catholic.вЂќ вЂњWhat he does affects what other Catholics will do. вЂњHeвЂ™s the most public figure in the world,вЂќ Sheridan said. Last fall, before the election, steps from the Biden family graves behind the church, someone in their small group called out, вЂњRepent for BeauвЂ™s soul.вЂќДЄs they see it, church doctrine demands that Biden be made an example of, called out even when visiting his sonвЂ™s final resting place. It is their belief that if Biden is going to receive communion, вЂњthen we donвЂ™t want him comfortably going in,вЂќ said Williams. They had come to block him from participating in the churchвЂ™s most important sacrament. They had not come to pray for the president, who is only the second occupant of the White House to share their faith. вЂњNumber one, our concern is for Joe BidenвЂ™s soul,вЂќ Sheridan told me.

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

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