You see, that is what giving a award like this to a political candidate does......it allows them to let others point to it.
Biden was shockingly unworthy. I will refrain from listing his flaws from a catholic perspective since Fr Jenkins is right about not throwing stones. But this is the same president who claimed that ND would always extend an offer to an incoming president to speak at a commencement regardless of politics when he asked Obama to speak shortly after Obama, In his first act as president, overturned the Mexico City Accord instituted under Reagan which prevented US tax payer money from going to fund overseas abortions.
Then later, when Trump is elected, Jenkins refuses to invite Trump who would have spoken, and instead copped out to ask Mike Pence instead.
Jenkins is a liberal academic.