Born into a working-class Catholic family, Joe Biden attended a Catholic prep school and briefly considered priesthood before being inspired into politics as a teenager by John F. Kennedy, another Catholic: "I'm very proud to be Catholic. It's part of my spirituality, part of my identity. When John Kennedy ran for president, I remember being so proud that he was Catholic." (Joe Biden, The News Journal, August 2005) Joe Biden's faith in his Catholic religion was tested in 1972, just after his first election to the Senate, when his wife and daughter died in a car crash, and again in 1988 when an aneurysm required him to undergo a life-threatening brain surgery. Today, Joe Biden remains a Catholic who considers himself religious: "The next Republican that tells me I'm not religious I'm going to shove my rosary beads down their throat." (Joe Biden, Cincinnati Enquirer, 2005) Joe Biden gets comfort from his rosary beads, enough to have asked the doctor who performed his brain surgery if he could tuck them under his pillow, and attends mass on Sundays: "I get comfort from carrying my rosary, going to mass every Sunday. It's my time alone." (Joe Biden, Christian Science Monitor, August 2007) Should mass be his time "alone", or should it be his time with God? And what exactly does Joe Biden believe about God?
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