Notre Dame rebukes ugly politics, gives award to Biden and Boehner

c. 2016 Religion News Service

(RNS) Vice President Joe Biden and former House speaker John Boehner, devout Catholics and longtime political foes, will share a prestigious honor from the University of Notre Dame in a rebuke of the polarization of American politics.

“We live in a toxic political environment where poisonous invective and partisan gamesmanship pass for political leadership,” Notre Dame’s president, John Jenkins, said in a statement announcing that Biden, a Democrat, and Boehner, a Republican, would receive the 2016 Laetare Medal.