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January 08, 2021
CWN Editor s Note: “Politics cannot ignore individual responsibility, especially on the part of the person who is in power and is able through a polarizing narrative to mobilize thousands of people,” the Vatican newspaper’s assistant director, Giuseppe Fiorentino, wrote in an op-ed. “He who sows the wind reaps the whirlwind, and at this point it is easy to tie the events in Washington to the accusations of fraud launched by Trump after the voting Nov. 3, accusations that never found objective confirmation.”
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Assault on U.S. Capitol shocks the world
All eight videos on the homepage of the website of the Italian daily newspaper, La Repubblica, on Jan. 7, 2021, cover the previous day’s storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump. (CNS photo)
By Catholic News Service • Posted January 7, 2021
ROME (CNS) The breach of the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6 sent shock waves around the world.
As Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane, president of the Australian bishops’ conference tweeted: “I didn’t realize just how much the integrity of and respect for the democratic institutions of the U.S. matter to the rest of the world until this pandemonium erupted in D.C. From the other side of the world, I find myself shaken and disbelieving.”