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Joe Biden is no Al Smith

25 January 2021

2:19 AM

25 January 2021

2:19 AM

January 20, 2021 saw Joe Biden become the second Catholic to be inaugurated as president.

His installation was hailed by many as an historic moment of progress for Catholics in American public life. The New York Times today labeled him ‘perhaps the most religiously observant commander in chief in half a century’. To

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