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Lamenting the Overheated Political Rhetoric of Our Time, by Russell Shaw – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Russell Shaw, Catholic World Report, September 19, 2024 

Russell Shaw was secretary for public affairs of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops/United States Catholic Conference from 1969 to 1987. He is the author of 20 books, including Nothing to Hide, American Church: The Remarkable Rise, Meteoric Fall, and Uncertain Future of Catholicism in America, Eight Popes and the Crisis of Modernity, and, most recently, The Life of Jesus Christ (Our Sunday Visitor, 2021).

 

I would welcome authentic discussions in which candidates exchanged thoughtful views in measured, civil tones and spent their time—and ours—spelling out competing approaches to problems bearing on the common good.

“A man that’d expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic, but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer and remains at large.”

That bit of wisdom concerning the limitations of the electoral process was coined by Mr. Dooley. A purely fictitious creation of author Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley held forth on many subjects—politics included—from his perch in a Chicago pub. The Dooley sketches first appeared in newspapers and were collected by Dunne in several popular books. …

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