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Commentary: Donald Trump had no grasp of the value of democracy and no ability to employ the symbolic power of his job to fulfill his responsibility as head of state. Joe Biden needs to fill that void.

We say: Joe Biden's biography and political outlook are attuned to the fact that we as a nation must learn again how to look after one another. As Catholics, we can give advice to our president-elect.

Distinctly Catholic: No one is better equipped to help heal the nation and restore confidence in government than Biden. But in order to unite the country, he needs the cooperation of the Republicans, or of at least some of them.

Distinctly Catholic: As the cardinal-archbishop of the nation's capital, Wilton Gregory becomes face of the Catholic Church in the political sphere and the natural point man for dealing with the incoming Biden administration.

Commentary: America's catastrophic responses to the coronavirus pandemic and to racial justice protests have made plain for many the effects of a 40-year project that began in the early 1980s.

John Carr helped write the first voting guide adopted by U.S. bishops in 1975. Not once since then has the longtime bishops' adviser ever publicly said how he intends to vote. Until now.

Distinctly Catholic: In speech after speech, the Democrats' three core totems this week have been racial justice, beating the pandemic and rebuilding the economy. Left out: any focus on abortion.

Distinctly Catholic: I make no apologies for Biden's untenable position on abortion, but the reduction of the Catholic faith to this one issue has been a pastoral as well as a political dead-end, a distortion of Catholic moral teaching that must stop.