Tag: Pope John Paul II

• A time for courage and for antacids

  Five months from today we are likely to wake up and find that Joe Biden is our president elect. Donald Trump’s reelection seems increasingly unlikely, given that many polls now show Biden has a ten-point lead over Trump. Or maybe we won’t know. One factor in this election is that there may be a crush…

  Mark

  June 3, 2020

  Politics 2020

  Barack Obama, Bill Barr, Bill Clinton, COVID-19, Dictatorship, Donald Trump, Election 2020, Fascism, George Bush, Insurrection Act, Mark Esper, Pope John Paul II, Posse Comitatus

• Dear Pope Francis: you are half the way there

  Presumably Pope Francis is now back in Rome and settling in after a whirlwind tour of Cuba and the United States. He’s a pope who is hard to dislike, perhaps because he comes out of the Jesuits. For a pope he is also suspiciously pragmatic. He was not shy expressing his opinions while in the…

  Mark

  September 29, 2015

  Politics 2015, Sociology

  Birth Control, Catholic Church, China, Climate Change, Democrats, Overpopulation, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II, Religion, Republicans