By Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing, Jan. 28, 2021
Randall B. Smith is a Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas. …
Note: Robert Royal will appear on “The World Over” with Raymond Arroyo tonight at 8 PM to discuss President Biden’s Catholicism. Check for local listings. The show will also be posted on the EWTN YouTube channel after the initial broadcast.
It is a great challenge these days trying to keep friends on both sides of the ideological divide. Sometimes, when your friends discover that you do not see things exactly the way they do – the way their side insists is the way to view current troubles – then you’re finished. You might as well have the plague.
In other situations, the difficulty arises in trying to convince friends on one side of the partisan divide that those on the other side may actually be reasonable people who happen to see things differently. Try convincing someone who despises Donald Trump, Josh Hawley, or Mitch McConnell that people on the other side view Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer the same way – as uniquely evil and the primary source of America’s ills. …