August 31, 2008
Biden's faith strong, but abortion stance draws fire
by Gary Soulsman
The News Journal
Sen. Joe Biden has long talked about feeling at home in Catholic culture -- attending parochial schools, worshipping at weekly Mass, having a chance to meet Pope John Paul II and saying in a 2005 interview that he would shove his rosary beads down the throat of the next person who questions his faith.
So it was no surprise last Sunday -- the day after he appeared in Springfield, Ill., as Barack Obama's running mate -- that he was back in Delaware worshipping at St. Joseph's on the Brandywine in Greenville.
Mass has always been his "time alone" with God, he wrote in his 2007 autobiography, "Promises to Keep."
Local and national reporters were there in the handsome yellow Greenville church, too. Religion has played an important role in this election -- the press asking whether, for example, Americans would accept the Mormonism of Gov. Mitt Romney or how Sen. Barack Obama should deal with his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
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