In his eulogy, Biden said Carter’s faith overlapped with broadly held American ideals such as the idea that ‘we all are ...

Here is the text of the eulogy President Joe Biden delivered Thursday during the state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter in Washington.

Biden, the nation’s second Catholic president, was one of several people to eulogize Carter, a lifelong Baptist.

Steve Ford gave his father’s posthumous elegy for Carter at Washington National Cathedral. “I’m looking forward to our reunion,” the 38th president wrote. “We have much to catch up on.” ...

"Throughout his life, he showed us what it means to be practitioner of good works, a good and faithful servant of God and of the people," Biden said of Carter.