White House chief of staff Denis McDonough told David Axelrod on his podcast “The Axe Files” on Wednesday that President Obama is the most Catholic president in U.S. history during a conversation on faith and politics.
Axelrod, who formerly served as Obama’s senior adviser in the White House, told McDonough that the president often talked about being raised in a spiritual tradition versus a religious tradition and that he later adopted his faith when he was older living in Chicago.
“Look, I say to him, Axe, and I think I’ve said this to him in your presence and I’ve said this publicly before, I think this is our most Catholic of presidents,” McDonough said. “And I mean that by capital ‘C’ Catholic in what I see and what he does everyday.”...