Biden’s Visit to the Vatican
The party of JFK now loves to talk politics with the pope.
by George Neumayr
October 30, 2021, 10:02 PM
In the days of John F. Kennedy, the Democrats emphasized their political distance from the pope. Kennedy promised Americans that he would never let the pope influence him on “matters of public policy.” How times have changed. Today’s Democrats boast of their political alliance with Pope Francis. They openly confer with him on matters of public policy, as evident in Joe Biden’s latest visit to the Vatican. After he met with the pope last Friday, Biden praised him for “fighting the climate crisis, as well as his advocacy to ensure the pandemic ends for everyone through vaccine sharing and an equitable global economic recovery.”
Kennedy rose to the top of his party by reassuring Democrats that his connection to the Church was religious, not political. Biden rose to the presidency by making it clear to Democrats that his connection to the Church is political, not religious. His pledge might as well have been: I will only listen to the pope on matters of public policy.
Judging by press accounts, it appears that Biden and the pope didn’t discuss much beyond their shared left-wing politics. The pope looked famously glum at his meeting with Donald Trump. But the pictures from his meeting with Biden show a very warm exchange between the two. CNN noted the unusual length of Biden’s meeting with the pope: “The world’s most powerful Catholics — President Joe Biden and Pope Francis — renewed their close relationship on Friday, holding a 90-minute meeting that was twice as long as the one the President held with Pope John Paul II in one of his first meetings with a pontiff.”
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