24 September 2015, The Tablet

Somehow coherence online seems less important than in print


 
The most popular man in the world is about to come to the United States of America,” The Times quoted Vice President Joe Biden saying – and the report continued, as an unspoken thought of Mr Biden, “and he sometimes seemed to be on the Democrat side”. The paper added: “Rush Limbaugh, the conservative talk-show host, offered a similar, but critical, analysis of the Pope’s message. ‘Essentially,’ he said, ‘Francis is saying that every Catholic should vote for the Democrat party.’”Yet, as others apart from me noted in the press before the Pope’s historic visit to the United States this week, the House of Representatives has 69 Catholic Republicans and 68 Catholic Democrats (totalling 31 per cent of the 435 seats). Neithe
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