Not since Jimmy Carter, a Baptist who has taught Bible classes well into his 90s, has the United States had a president whose life is so entwined with his faith as Joe Biden.
A devout Catholic, the 78-year-old Biden is as apt to quote Scripture as he is his beloved Irish poets.
Just the second Catholic president in US history — John F. Kennedy was the first — Biden wears his faith on his sleeve.
Literally.
Around his left wrist he often sports a rosary from the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico that his son Beau was wearing the day he died of brain cancer in 2015.
He frequently credits his working-class Irish Catholic roots with shaping his values on social and economic issues.
Biden rarely misses a Sunday mass when at home in Delaware, attending services at St. Joseph on the Brandywine, a small, quaint church in an affluent suburb.
It is there that Biden’s parents are buried along with Beau. Also there are the graves of Biden’s first wife, Neilia, and their daughter Naomi,…