Fr. Robert Araujo, S.J. takes care of it:

The distinction that Senator Biden makes in claiming the John XXIII mantle while discarding the John Paul II one does not exist. Both popes were of the same view regarding the evil of abortion. To be a John XXIII “guy” is simultaneously a claim to be a John Paul II “guy.”

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