It is possible that Catholic rhetoric regarding Trump is influenced by the high-octane and low-civility rhetoric that is found all over Washington, beginning with the White House.
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It was notable that in Trump's state of the union, the only mention of criminal justice and prisons was about getting inmates out of prison.
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The damage to the political culture caused by the discovery that a federal judge had skeletons in his teenage closet would be less severe than the willingness of senior senators to fabricate those skeletons as a deceitful means to a political end.
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In this noisiest of noisy presidencies, the silence of the Queen was refreshing.
Read MoreAfter all this time, many people still widely mistake Trump as being in Washington to govern. Trump is in Washington as the crowning achievement of his lifetime project, which is to be the centre of attention in America’s corrupted culture.
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Trump was full of praise for Poland’s two centuries of courage and fidelity on the front lines of freedom. Very specifically, he identified the key date in recent Polish history as the day that St. John Paul II returned home for the first time:
Read MoreTrump lacks credibility on lived values. Yet he delivered a powerful argument that Western civilization — rooted in certain ideas about God, the human person and liberty — depends upon more than force of arms or a surfeit of material goods to survive.
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President Donald Trump was full of praise for Poland’s noble past on Thursday in Warsaw, but his presence here ahead of the G20 in Hamburg, Germany, is an attempt to shape a different European future, where the eastern countries have a larger role.
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President Donald Trump visited the Western Wall this week during his visit to Israel. That was wholly unthinkable 50, 70 and 100 years ago.
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Madeleine Albright, former secretary of state for President Bill Clinton, argued that American foreign policy neglected the role of religion, and that it should be engaged as a potential force for peace.
Read MoreThe massive Women’s March against Donald Trump was billed as being open to all, but they would not have made room on the podium for the Little Sisters of the Poor as they did for Planned Parenthood.
Read MoreNeither Saudi Arabia nor Egypt want a Middle East dominated by Iran. They might welcome Trump’s skepticism over the nuclear deal.
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It is remarkable that the celebrity-and-entertainment culture that birthed and nursed Trump is so opposed to him, and to his pomps and works. They react in horror and speak of him as the Devil incarnate. They refuse to acknowledge him as one of their own.
Read MoreA presidential inauguration is a simulacrum of a coronation, the introduction of the new president to a life marked by imperial excess the likes of which would have embarrassed Napoleon.
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