Joe Biden's Catholic America

Audio 48:30

“Joe Biden, a Catholic facing America”, by Massimo Faggioli and “Convert!

Itinerary of a Brother from the Bronx”, by Raphaël-Jacques Chilou.

© Editions Bayard / Editions du Cerf

By: Geneviève Delrue

1 min

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World Religions - Sunday, February 13, 2022 - 10:10 a.m. to 11 a.m. (Paris time)

In his essay 

 (Bayard), the Italian professor of History of Religions,

, a connoisseur of American society, analyzes the Catholicism of the second Catholic President of the United States after John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

A president who must position himself in a landscape fragmented by divisive societal debates, foremost among which is abortion. 

Lighting with 

, journalist at the Religions department of 

, specialist in Anglo-Saxon religious news.

Great guest:

, French priest expatriated in the United States since 2002, member of the Fraternity of the Franciscans of the Renewal, better known under the name of the Franciscans of the Bronx, a new community at the service of the underprivileged populations.

His book, 

 (Cerf), addresses the question of the evolution of the Church imposed by the scandal of sexual abuse, but also calls on everyone to be able, one day, to modify his way of life.

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