...to remember when the POTUS attending Sunday worship was a big deal, largely because of security concerns. As it was presented, POTUS attending Sunday worship entailed a circus of Secret Service agents and a major security apparatus just to make one appearance happen. Regular worship seemed right out, which may have been the way most Presidents wanted it (for personal as well as work-related reasons).Our @POTUS, @JoeBiden, quietly attended church this morning.
— Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) February 7, 2021
He didn't mean tweet. He didn't golf. He didn't gaslight.
What a change. pic.twitter.com/WvHy5fjyUX
I have no idea how Biden is working this out, or if it's a major inconveience for the parish. I hope it isn't, and prefer to think he's solved this problem, at least for his personal spirituality. And the welfare of the country, since that is part of his remit and duty.
Just been reading about how the problems of indicting and prosecuting Trump may outweigh the benefits of enforcing the law (then again, Trump is so "rich" he fired his first team of impeachment lawyers, partly over the question of legal fees, and ended up with the second string, and he's burned through every set of lawyers in the country worth their salt. Trump is not getting any richer at the moment. Indeed, his financial woes may eclipse his legal ones.). Justice denied will not wash Trump's influence out of the body politic; but so many of the insurrectionists are going to face criminal trial it may reflect badly on the GOP that their Senators did nothing about the man who will be the empty chair in almost every trial conducted (and those will take years, unless plea bargains are made).
But with or without the prosecution of Trump, Biden is going to wash away the stain of Trump's four years, and I think Biden's Catholicism will be the primary fountainhead of those waters. Even though Biden will never say a word about it, but just go quietly about his actions created through his faith.
What a change, indeed.
(added irony: "...Donald Trump identified himself as the 'best [president] in the history of the Catholic Church' in a conference call for Catholic leaders and educators" in April, 2020. The phone call was about Catholic schools and tuition assistance, for which, so far as I know, Trump did almost nothing despite promising to do a great deal. Joe Biden may end up being a better exemplar and even President for the Church. Kennedy is remembered as the first Catholic President, but he's also remembered for his philandering, hardly a model of Christian Catholic behavior. Trump wasn't even nominally Christian; the Bishops sucked up to him because of his power, nothing more. Biden may end up reflecting more positively on Catholicism than any other world figure outside of Pope Francis, and for much the same reasons. Thoughts like that make me reflect on how powerful the true nature of Christianity is, despite all the people who act in it's name for their own ends.)
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