Holtz on Wednesday criticized the Catholic faith of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, saying he was “Catholic in name only.” Holtz, who also accused Biden of being “radically pro-abortion,” led into his statement by mentioning he was the former Fighting Irish football coach and that the university has a statue of him on campus.
“One of the important reasons (President Donald Trump) has my trust is because nobody is but a stronger advocate for the unborn than President Trump,” Holtz said. “The Biden-Harris ticket is the most radically pro-abortion campaign in history. They and other politicians are Catholics in name only and abandon innocent lives. President Trump protects those lives. I trust President Trump.”
Biden, considered by many to be a devout Catholic, described faith as “the bedrock foundation” of his life, something which he relied on heavily following the death of his son, Beau, to brain cancer in 2015.
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Notre Dame president the Rev. John I. Jenkins on Thursday rejected Holtz’s comments, saying “we must never question the sincerity of another’s faith.”
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This is not the first time Holtz has made outlandish, heavily criticized statements. The former 33-year college football coach — who coached Notre Dame from 1986 to 1996 and led the team to the 1988 national championship — recently compared college football’s COVID-19 risk to soldiers storming Normandy in World War II, saying, “They knew there were going to be casualties.”
