With Biden pick, America's bishops face a familiar headache
By JOHN L. ALLEN JR.
Denver
As the Democratic National Convention opens in Denver, here?s an irony worth pondering: Perhaps the most disappointed group in America over the choice of a Roman Catholic as the party?s nominee for Vice-President may well be the country?s Catholic bishops.
That?s not necessarily any reflection on the personal merits of Delaware Senator Joseph Biden, but rather what kind of Catholic he is, and what that means for the American bishops between now and November 4 (and perhaps for four or eight years after that).