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Joe Biden

by
Sethaphon Plisak

Content

Introduction
Biography
Spiritual belief
Some pictures of spiritual activities
Reference

Introduction

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is an American
politician who is the 46th and current

president of the United States. A member
of the Democratic Party, he served as the

47th vice president from 2009 to 2017
under Barack Obama and represented
Delaware in the United States Senate from

1973 to 2009.

Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president
of the United States on January 20, 2021.At
78, he is the oldest person to have assumed

the office. He is the second Catholic
president and the first president whose
home state is Delaware. He is the second
non-incumbent vice president to be elected
president. He is also the first president from

the Silent Generation.

Biography

Biden was born and raised in Scranton,
Pennsylvania, moving with his family to
New Castle County, Delaware in 1953 when
he was ten. He studied at the University of
Delaware before earning his law degree
from Syracuse University in 1968. He was
elected to the New Castle County Council
in 1970 and became the sixth-youngest
senator in U.S. history after he was elected
to the United States Senate from Delaware
in 1972, at age 29. Biden was the chair or
ranking member of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee for 12 years and was
influential in foreign affairs during Obama's
presidency. He also chaired the Senate
Judiciary Committee from 1987 to 1995,
dealing with drug policy, crime prevention,

and civil liberties issues

Spiritual belief

On the matter of faith, President Joe Biden
is not shy.

Each weekend that he is in town, he goes to
Mass in Washington. A motorcade takes
him on Saturday evenings or Sunday
mornings to Holy Trinity, the church
where President Kennedy, the only other
Catholic US president, used to attend
services. He makes the sign of the cross at

public events, and his Catholicism is woven
into his speeches and policies.

Yet Biden's stance on abortion, and his
support for reproductive rights, clash with

church teachings. He has seemed to be
personally troubled by the idea of abortion.
Years ago he wondered aloud whether Roe
v Wade, the landmark Supreme Court ruling
that affirmed the right in US law, went "too

far". But today he supports a woman's right
to choose whether or not to have a child,

one of the core tenets of progressive
politics.

Liberal Catholics applaud Biden for his
position on abortion while conservative
ones denounce him. And now some bishops
say he should be denied the Eucharist
because of his views about reproductive

rights. As a result, the Eucharist, a wafer
that is made sacred through a church ritual,

is now at the centre of a battle between
conservative bishops and progressive

Catholics.
Six months after moving into the White
House, Biden's effort to mesh progressive
politics and Catholic faith has become a

lightning rod for controversy.

Some pictures of spiritual activities



Reference

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2021/01/
19/mormon-women-ethical/

https://www.pewforum.org/2021/03/30/
most-democrats-and-republicans-know-bide
n-is-catholic-but-they-differ-sharply-about-h
ow-religious-he-is/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden

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