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.
