‘This Is the Kind of Moral Conviction We Need’: Democratic National Convention Touts Biden’s Faith

The Democratic National Convention highlighted Joe Biden’s Catholic faith on Monday.

The DNC released a 60-second ad on Twitter that showed Biden meeting Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Basilica and talking to a group of nuns outside on a street in Rome.

In a voiceover, Biden noted that he was raised in the Catholic faith and “educated by the nuns.”

Biden added that the nuns he met in Rome epitomized Pope Francis’ teaching on generosity to other people, reaching out and stressing that “we are our brother’s keeper.”

“This is the kind of moral conviction we need in the president of the United States, ” the DNC wrote on Twitter.

This is the kind of moral conviction we need in the president of the United States. pic.twitter.com/iJKAOVoFns

— 2020 #DemConvention 🇺🇸 (@DemConvention) August 9, 2020

“He is viewed as having an authentic faith,” Richard Mouw, the former president of Fuller Theological Seminary and professor of faith and public life, said in a statement. “He may not be the conservative Catholic that a lot of evangelicals would like him to be, but when he talks about his faith, it rings true.”

Mouw, alongside evangelical leaders Chuck Colson, Bill Bright, and the late J.I. Packer, signed the historic ecumenical document “Evangelicals and Catholics Together” in 1994.

The “Evangelicals and Catholics Together”…