WASHINGTON (DC)
Huffington Post
Al Eisele
Editor-at-Large, The Hill
Pope Francis has said he won’t address any domestic political issues during his visit to the U.S., but there’s a good chance he may bestow his blessing on Vice President Joe Biden, and by inference, encourage him to run for president.
That is, if Biden follows the lead of Vice President Walter Mondale when Pope John Paul II visited Washington 36 years ago.
John Paul was wrapping up a six-city visit to the U.S. in 1969 after saying Mass on the National Mall and meeting President Carter at the White House. He was the first pope to visit the White House and I was working for Mondale at the time and won major points with my Irish Catholic wife and her parents by getting them invited to meet him at a White House reception.
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