Barack Obama in Biden and Catholicism, by Massimo Faggioli


On Principles & Values: Obama represented secular liberalism to US church leaders

The similarities between the way the U.S. bishops interacted with Obama and how they interact with Francis merits a chapter of its own. The tension between the USCCB [United States Conference of Catholic Bishops] and the Obama administration can be seen as a political prelude to the U.S. bishop's reaction to the election of Pope Francis. If the Obama presidency has been seen by many bishop's and by the leadership of the American bishops' conference as an assault by secular liberalism on the religious freedom of the Catholic Church in Americas, Francis's pontificate is seen by important centers of Catholic thought as culturally and politically subversive, in that he is unable to understand the extent of the challenges posed to Christianity and Catholicism by liberalism in the Far West.
Source: Biden and Catholicism, by Massimo Faggioli, p. 81 Jan 20, 2021

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