in his actions all throughout the day here in washington, d.c. anne thompson, thank you so much. kathleen, i m conscious of the moment here, we are nearing the communion, aren t we? i can t i haven t been able yes, well, the liturgy of the eucharist, but they are bringing up the gifts at this point. i don t know who s in the procession. i would imagine that there are representatives of indigenous groups from california, as i understand they were involved in the liturgy, so, this is the presentation of the bread and the wine that will be transformed into the body and blood of christ. i don t want to offend any catholics in our audience. we are not at the consecration yet. we will be careful about talking over. exactly. tell me your thoughts again, kathleen, as you listen to that homily, we were just talking to anne about the messaging. and we are going to see the pope in so many different venues over
as somebody familiar with that. they ll give the bread, the body of christ, to all of the parishioners here tomorrow. they ll reserve the wine, the blood of christ, for the clergy because it would take so long to give it out to everyone here, brian. kasie, let s talk about you. you re just back in from the trail. the crowds you re used to seeing are at political events and rallies. you re used to being lobbied and spun by the camps and this is just really building joy, about the visit of one man and that must be a certain dichotomy in your head. it is really remarkable, brian, this is something where even when you talk to political candidates i tend to cover republicans a lot in particular and chuck has been talking about how the visit has put them in a difficult spot. even they all stop to talk about how the pope is speaking to people in a way that s potentially transformational and different and bringing more people into the church.
forgiveness. and i do that as often as possible because i feel cleansed. okay? okay. when i drink my little wine and i have my little cracker. to certain believing christians the body and blood of christ. i think he s wrapped up the catholic vote. i m just saying respond. yeah i think this is sort of the fundamental charm of trump as the candidate if he can be said to have charms is that he says whatever comes into his head. so because he s not messaged and it feels like he s really just channelling that id that people want to see out there. the problem with that is that he says anything that comes into his head. so instead of coming out there, all of the other politicians know how to not sound like a raving lunatic on the stage. and he s had some problems with the lunacy control. he is also not one of them. he s not conservative really. last week. yeah he s not a deeply
and i was angry. when i first found out about what happened i was angry, frustrated, i was all those thing. i can relate as a black man to how many black people are feeling. i put my thoughts on paper and i realized there s something deeper here. and the deeper issue we all have is because we all have the propensity to do those things, we have the ability to be racist whether you re black or white, we have the ability to lash out at people, and we all have an issue that we need to get taken care of. and that can only be done by the blood of christ. it s funny how when you start writing your thoughts out initially you have an initial reaction and then as you kind of unpack that and go through different layers, you see how you really feel. i thought it was great you said you don t think it was about skin but sin. you just made reference to that there. you also talked about your perspective growing up as a black man, you say i m fearful, among other motions, that though
care of. and that can only be done by the blood of christ. it s funny how when you start writing your thoughts out initially you have an initial reaction and then as you kind of unpack that and go through different layers, you see how you really feel. i thought it was great you said you don t think it was about skin but sin. you just made reference to that there. you also talked about your perspective growing up as a black man, you say i m fearful, among other motions, that though in the back of my mind i m a law-abiding citizen, i could still be looked upon as a threat to those who don t know me, so i have to continue to go the extra mile to earn the benefit of the doubt. it s great to see somebody like you giving voice to that as well, somebody not out there looting, who is working and a success and a lover of the lord saying trust me, i m a law-abiding citizen, i m a regular guy, i ve broken some traffic laws and things like that, but take it from me i do