If Biden is to heal America, he’ll need his Church

But it would be naïve to think those results mark “closure” or “finality” in anything other than an electoral sense. Arguably, not since Lincoln’s first inauguration in 1861 has an incoming American president taken office facing such a divided nation. If Biden is to govern, he’ll need to find a way to begin putting the pieces back together, and drawing on the resources of the Catholic Church may be among his better options.