In Biden’s Catholic Faith, an Ascendant Liberal Christianity
--- President Biden, perhaps the most religiously observant commander in chief in half a century, speaks of how his Catholic faith grounds his life and his policies ---
While conservative Catholics have halved abortion policies and religious freedom over the past four years, Mr. Biden’s policy priorities have focused the church’s attention from sexual politics to issues such as environmental protection, poverty, and migration. It reflects the policy of Pope Francis.
On his first day in office, Mr. Biden recommended to the United States the Paris Climate Agreement, an international agreement designed to prevent global warming; the ban on travel, mainly from Muslim and African countries, was lifted; and stopped construction on the boundary wall
Mr. Biden’s priorities reflect the values promoted by progressive faith leaders and encouraged many to speak up for him during the campaign, said Derrick Harkins, who has led the Democratic National Committee’s interfaith advocacy in the past. On the left, there is a sense of moral synergy between not only advanced Christians but also humanists, Muslims, Jews, Sikhs, and a spectrum of religious traditions, he said.
Unlike four years ago, when most of those who attended the post-inauguration prayer service were conservative evangelists or preachers of the gospel of prosperity, this year’s Thursday ceremony was attended by many religious progressives, including two transgender religious leaders. Rabbi Sharon Brous from ICAR, a Jewish community in Los Angeles, prayed for the coming of a new America “built on love, based on justice and moving with our moral vision”.
The chairman of the Poor People’s Campaign, William J. Barber II, preached and directly encouraged Mr. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Continue with the third rebuild, decades after the era of civil rights. He called on them to address “systemic racism, poverty, environmental catastrophe/denial of health, the war economy and injustices related to the false moral narrative of religious nationalism”.
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