As the second Catholic to become president of the United States, Biden faced far more challenges about his Catholicism than President John F. Kennedy. All JFK had to do was convince Southern Baptists that he was not going to take orders from the pope.
Biden had to withstand withering criticism from some of the Catholic faithful who were convinced that they had God’s ear and Joe did not. In Christlike fashion, he never returned their volleys, kept his head down and continued to nourish his Catholic faith at Sunday Mass.
