Yearly Archives: 2016

Pope Francis and divorce Originally published September 17, 2016 at 12:20 pm The sin of a second marriage is not serious enough to justify excluding people of good intentions from the sacraments. By Ross Douthat Syndicated columnist Last weekend, Tim … Continue reading →

  September 17, 2016, Saturday — The Bells of Rome, Last Conversations #4 “Peter Seewald: When you left the Vatican in a helicopter, this also was part in some way of the entire screenplay, as it were, at least as … Continue reading →

    September 16, 2016, Friday — Adieu, Padre Amorth “I, afraid of that beast? It is he who should be afraid of me: I work in the name of the Lord of the world. He is just the monkey … Continue reading →

  THIS MAP SHOWS THE PROBABLE OUTCOME OF THE VOTING IN THE 50 STATES ON NOVEMBER 8, 2016.  THE NUMBER IN EACH STATE ON THE MAP SHOWS THE NUMBER OF ELECTORAL COLLEGE MEMBERS WHO WILL BE SELECTED IN THE VOTING … Continue reading →

James Madison Elections The Electoral College Still Makes Sense Because We’re Not A Democracy What appears to deprive the populace of its power to decide a president is the very mechanism that preserves its power. The Electoral College works that … Continue reading →

  How Ratzinger Sees Francis: “He Is the Man of Practical Reform” The reigning pope as described by his predecessor: “So different from how I had known him.” And also very different from him by Sandro Magister ROME, September 14, … Continue reading →

  Hillary Clinton has a coughing fit in the middle of a speech ! GIOVANNI A. FONTANA, TITO PANTALEO, FEDERICO LAVORINI, FRANCESCO BENVENUTI, and SALVATORE GANGEMI “Defective Motor Control of Coughing in Parkinson’s Disease”, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care … Continue reading →

Two hundred seventy votes in the Electoral College meeting in December 2016 will be necessary for a candidate for the presidency of the United States to win the office and be inaugurated in January 2017.  This map shows the probable … Continue reading →

THE QUESTIONS YOU CAN’T ASK: This morning Mollie Hemingway went on National Public Radio with Cokie Roberts for Morning Edition, and if you want to know how it went, you can just read this tweet from former Gov. Howard Dean, … Continue reading →