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November 8, 2024

Free Speech Issue Weighed Heavily in 2024 Elections, by Craig Bannister

By Craig Bannister, MRC TV - The importance of retaining their First Amendment right to free speech weighed heavily on the minds of voters in this year’s elections – just as Americans had warned candidates it would... (one) survey revealed that nearly two-thirds (63%) of Americans rated free speech a “very important” issue influencing their vote for president, while nine in ten of both Republicans and Democrats said it would be at least a “somewhat important” factor. ...
November 8, 2024

Catholic World News: Cardinal Parolin Offers Vatican Views on Trump Victory

By Catholic World News - CWN Editor's Note: Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, offered his thoughts on the presidential election of Donald Trump in an exchange with reporters on November 7... “Of course we wish him well,” Cardinal Parolin said. “We wish him much wisdom, because that is the principal virtue of leaders according to the Bible.”... Parolin said that he hoped Trump could fulfill his promise to end the warfare in Ukraine and Gaza, but added “I don’t think he has a magic wand.” ...
November 8, 2024

How Trump’s Win Could Impact the US Bishops’ Agenda, by Jonathan Liedl 

By Jonathan Liedl, National Catholic Register - The USCCB has already addressed Trump’s victory, with conference president Archbishop Timothy Broglio congratulating the Republican in a Nov. 6 statement that also emphasizes the Church’s nonpartisan commitment to advancing the common good and the need for unity and prayer... Additionally, some of the anticipated agenda items for the 2024 assembly will likely take on a different shape with the conservative populist Trump, and not the progressive globalist Harris, in the Oval Office.
November 8, 2024

Trump’s Landslide Was a Mandate for Peace, and His Is Now the Peace Party, by Jason Scott Jones

By Jason Scott Jones, The Stream - In the last stretch of the 2024 presidential election season, Donald Trump made it clearer than ever that he was pitting the fate of his entire movement against the military-industrial complex and the violence of war. There has rightly been plenty of talk about the political “realignments” Trumpism has brought about. These historic shifts have resulted in a new populist right that champions the worker .... But the most significant realignment has been a realignment toward peace ....

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