“Battle for the soul of America”: A Catholic president faces not just a divided nation, but a divided Catholic Church – ABC Religion & Ethics February 9, 2021 by Fulcrum Joe Biden is the first Catholic president to publicly express a religious soul — not a vaguely Christian, but a distinctly Catholic one. He has refused to make his faith a weapon in the “culture wars”. But Biden is also the first Catholic president to hold office in the midst of a deep American intra-Church crisis, and faces fierce opposition from the bishops due to his position on abortion Masimo Fagioli. ABC Religion & Ethics. 2 February 2021 FulcrumShareTweetShare