Church analyst: The bishops are uneasy with Biden, but he could be good news
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Catholic News Agency - EWTN [Denver CO]
April 23, 2021
Read original articleThe majority of U.S. bishops in a recent survey were at best “uneasy” with the second Catholic president in U.S. history, said Catholic analyst Francis Maier, yet Joe Biden’s presidency could in an unexpected way be good news for the Catholic Church.
Maier, a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), spoke at the John F. Scarpa Conference on Law, Politics, and Culture at Villanova University on April 23.
“Over the past six months,” he said, “I’ve done confidential
interviews with 29 bishops about the future of the Church for a project
I’m pursuing through Notre Dame’s Constitutional Studies program.
Twenty-eight of those men were American. These are mainstream guys. No
cranks and no outliers. They come from very different backgrounds. They
serve in a wide variety of pastoral conditions, urban and rural. And
they lead dioceses in every region of the country, in 20 different
states.”
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