On Sunday, President Joe Biden attended Sunday Mass at Holy Trinity, a Roman Catholic Church in Washington, D.C. that he’s attended since his days as Vice President.
Soon after, social media and legacy media outlets alike were awash with praise for the “devout” faith being put on display by the new president. The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/23/us/biden-catholic-christian.html?referringSource=articleShare">called</a> him, “perhaps the most religiously observant commander in chief in half a century,” celebrating that a “more liberal christianity grounds his life and his policies.” 
CNN ran a near celebratory <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/13/politics/joe-biden-catholic-faith/index.html">headline</a>, announcing to the world that “Biden’s Catholic faith will be on full display as the first publicly churchgoing president in decades.” 
NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/sunday-services-biden-s-faith-display-renewed-presidential-ritual-n1255460">touted</a> “Biden’s faith on display,” celebrating this “renewed presidential ritual,” while the New Yorker <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/can-joe-biden-save-american-catholicism-from-the-far-right">praised</a> his “practice of carrying a rosary,” as indicative of a “public servant’s deep faith.”  
Rather than questioning how President Biden’s Catholic faith aligns with his indisputably anti-Catholic positions on issues like abortion, the message from the media was clear: his faith is a humanizing badge of honor, his regular church attendance a sign of consistency worth emulating. 
If you’re surprised by this sort of coverage, it’s easy to see why. 
Just three months ago, the same media praising Biden for his “devout” faith was working feverishly to convince anyone who would listen that Amy Coney Barrett’s strict adherence to Catholic teachings made her a “radical.” 
Far from making her a more qualified public servant, Coney Barrett’s Catholic views were an indictment of her capabilities, weaponized by the same media now worshiping Biden’s worshiping. 
Coney Barrett’s statement that her “legal career is but a means to an end … and that end is building the kingdom of God,” was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/us/amy-coney-barrett-nominee-religion.html">held up</a> by the New York Times as an example of her radicalism, with pundits and commentators alike questioning whether a public servant ought to allow their decision-making to be influenced by religion. 
Such questions were absent from the headlines in coverage of President Biden’s faith. NPR, for example, ran a story<a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/09/20/913667325/how-joe-bidens-faith-shapes-his-politics"> titled</a> “How Joe Biden’s Faith Shapes His Politics.” Far from calling him a radical, NPR alluded to the fact that “his speeches are woven with references to God, biblical language or the Pope,” as a positive. 
“People who know him well say his Catholic faith is central to how he sees the world,” they noted.
If you aren’t fluent in the language of the Left, what they’re saying is this: it’s commendable that Joe Biden’s political career is swayed by his faith. It’s detestable for Amy Coney Barrett. 
No one made this more clear than Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) during Justice Barrett’s confirmation hearing for her appointment to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in 2017. “Why is it that so many of us on this side have this very uncomfortable feeling that dogma and law are two different things?” she asked.
“The conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you,” Feinstein <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/21/amy-coney-barrett-catholic-scotus/">concluded. </a>
On that note, Joe Biden’s own Vice President, Kamala Harris, once questioned whether a devout Catholic could serve in government, let alone as Commander in Chief.
In 2018, during a confirmation hearing for judicial nominee Brian Buescher, then Senator Harris questioned how Buescher, a devout Catholic, could judge fairly given his association with the Knights of Columbus, a Roman Catholic service organization.
“Were you aware that the Knights of Columbus opposed a woman’s right to choose when you joined the organization?” she asked.
Oddly enough, Harris’ apparent belief that those who associate with a pro-life organization are unable to serve in government didn&#8217;t impact her decision to partner with President Biden, a member of the Roman Catholic Church — a pro-life organization.
After Joe Biden’s first Sunday in office, the message of the Left and the legacy media as a whole is clear: devout faith in a leader is to be celebrated, as long as that leader is with us.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/haworth-why-democrats-hate-real-catholics">Why Democrats Hate Real Catholics</a>
Cabot Phillips is Managing Editor of The Daily Wire’s Readers Pass. Follow him on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/cabot_phillips">@cabot_phillips</a>
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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On Wednesday, MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace, who has made repeated attacks before on conservatives, described Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett as a “right-wing lunatic.&#8221; She also appeared to take a shot at Barrett’s devout Catholic faith by referring to her nomination as a “Hail Mary.”
Prior to her extreme characterization of Barrett, Wallace claimed that it was the GOP that was “afraid that we might reintroduce shame into the political ecosystem,” as <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2020/12/17/nicolle-wallace-slurs-amy-barrett-real-right-wing-lunatic">Newsbusters</a> pointed out. “But Republicans don&#8217;t feel pressure because of the suffering, because people have been suffering for many, many, many months,&#8221; said Wallace. &#8220;Republicans are afraid that we might reintroduce shame into the political ecosystem.”
She then took aim at Coney Barrett: “And I think that, what I detect in McConnell, is relief. I don&#8217;t think McConnell liked working with Donald Trump. I think he was craven enough to know that he could put whatever judges he wanted on the United States Supreme Court. Just call him up again and say: ‘Hey, do Gorsuch, do Kavanaugh next. And let&#8217;s do a Hail Mary with the real right-wing lunatic.’&#8221;
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On September 26, the day President Trump nominated Coney Barrett to the Court, Wallace immediately went on the attack, saying:
<blockquote>Information came out about her time and her relationship with a Christian organization called “People of Praise.” Now this is some of what we know about some of that group and spoke of what was scrutinized last time she was evaluated. Members of the group People of Praise swear a lifelong oath of loyalty called a covenant to one another and are assigned and are held accountable to a personal advisor called a “head” for men and a “handmaid” for women. The group teaches that husbands are the heads of their wives and should take authority over the family. Because of the rush that Donald Trump feels, Neal Katyal, because of the way this process is so condensed, these sorts of things become part of our coverage, even on the day of a ceremony in the Rose Garden.</blockquote>
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As far back as December 2015, <a href="https://dw-site-dev.dailywire.com/news/conservative-view-says-something-incredibly-nasty-amanda-prestigiacomo">Wallace said</a> Donald Trump was “tapping into the most sinister sentiments in this country.”
In May 2018, after former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders declined to comment publicly about a report on alleged comments made by an aide in the administration about Sen. John McCain&#8217;s (R-AZ) deteriorating health, Wallace <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/30547/watch-msnbcs-wallace-says-shes-tempted-wring-sarah-ryan-saavedra">asked</a> NBC News&#8217; White House reporter Kristen Welker, &#8220;How do you resist the temptation to run up and wring her neck?”
In October 2018, Wallace <a href="https://dw-site-dev.dailywire.com/news/msnbcs-nicolle-wallace-reveals-she-encouraged-ryan-saavedra">revealed</a> that she told 2016 presidential candidate Jeb Bush that he should have &#8220;punched&#8221; Trump in the face, recalling, &#8220;I told Jeb Bush after the debate that I thought he should have punched him in the face. Even if you lost, he insulted your wife, he came down the escalator and called Mexicans rapists and murderers.”
She continued, “He said, &#8216;What do you think I should have done?&#8217; I said, &#8216;I think you should have punched him in the face and then gotten out of the race. You would have been a hero.'&#8221;
In August 2019, Wallace accused Trump of “talking about exterminating Latinos.” She later <a href="https://twitter.com/NicolleDWallace/status/1158890765231304704">tweeted</a>, “I misspoke about Trump calling for an extermination of Latinos. My mistake was unintentional and I’m sorry. Trump’s constant assault on people of color and his use of the word ‘invasion’ to describe the flow of immigrants is intentional and constant.”
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