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Foreign Policy: Biden and Pope Francis could make a climate change miracle

By Foreign Policy.

Published Feb. 1, 2021. Updated Feb. 1 at 6:54 am

(FILES) In this file photo taken on Sept. 24, 2015, Pope Francis waves, next to US Vice President Joe Biden, from a balcony at the US Capitola balcony after speaking to a joint-session of the US Congress, in Washington, DC.

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America now has its second Catholic president. It took 60 years and, in some ways, the two eras could hardly be more different for American Catholics. In 1960, John F. Kennedy worried that many American Protestants would not vote for him because he was a Catholic. In 2020, Joe Biden had more reason to be concerned that it would be his fellow Catholics that would refuse to vote for him.