President Joe Biden emphasized the importance of his Catholic faith as he played host to influential Catholics at a St. Patrick’s Day brunch on March 17.
Biden said that his Catholic education taught him that “every single human being deserves to be treated with dignity.” He did not mention abortion.
The President welcomed “so many friends from the Catholic bishops’ conference as well as the Archdiocese of Washington” to the event, before sitting at a table flanked by Ireland’s Taoiseach (prime minister) Leo Varadkar and Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the papal nuncio in Washington.