The 2020 Elections, and the Pope's Remarks on Civil Unions

Heidi, Fr. Dan and David look back at the road leading to the 2020 elections, and what might lie ahead, and then they look at the recent remarks from Pope Francis about civil unions for LGBTQ persons

SEGMENT 1

New York Times poll shows Biden up in key states

NCR editorial (co-authored by Heidi) about Catholics voting their conscience in the election

Yuneun Trujillo’s piece on the Latinx response to Trump

SEGMENT 2

John Mulaney comedy special, “There’s a horse loose in the hospital”

Election Night Coverage with Catholic Theological Union, Commonweal, and National Catholic Reporter

Trevor Noah from The Daily Show, talking about Trump’s language (from 2016)

SEGMENT 3

New Yorker video - What do Foreign Correspondents Think of US?

NYT’s The Daily podcast: “The Specter of Political Violence”

David’s NCR piece on growing up in a militia household

Ed Mechman’s anti-Francis blog post from the Archdiocese of New York (not official pronouncement, but appearing on Arch website)

Article about Frank Pavone’s desecration of an altar (from Wall Street Journal)