Election and McCarrick Report
Election and McCarrick Report
I held the November issue up until the date of the US election, November 3, thinking it would be appropriate to discuss the results in this space. Now, as I close the magazine on November 15, the result is still unclear.
By Robert Moynihan
November 15, Feast of St. Albert the Great, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
I held back publication of this November issue of Inside the Vatican because I thought it would be appropriate to include some mention of the results of the November 3 presidential election in the United States. I watched the election returns on the night of November 3, and watched the halting of the counting of the ballots a little after midnight, and went to sleep thinking the results would be clarified on November 4. Now it is November 15, and the result of the election still seems unclear, as there are charges of irregularities in the voting, but there is as yet no firm evidence to prove the charges.
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Father Carl D. Johnson died Friday evening, Feb. 5, in the HealthAlliance Kingston Hospital from complications from COVID-19. Fr. Johnson was the pastor of the joined parishes of Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Port Ewen and Sacred Heart in Esopus in Ulster County.
He was ordained a priest in the Archdiocese of New York in Dec. 1978 by His Eminence Terence Cardinal Cooke, and went on to serve first as a deacon in Regina Coeli parish in Hyde Park, and later as a priest at Good Shepherd in Rhinebeck, St. John the Evangelist in Mahopac, Sacred Heart in Monroe, and St. Augustine in New City before moving to Presentation in 2012.
Trump is a lot like his mentor, my cousin Roy Cohn. Now he s leaving like him, in disgrace.
Cohn was disbarred, shamed and defeated by a disease he denied. He was Trump s mentor, but the departing president failed to learn some key lessons.
David L. Marcus
Opinion contributor
My cousin Roy Cohn taught Donald Trump the art of denying, deflecting and distracting. While Trump mastered all those, he failed to learn Roy’s most important lesson: A lifetime of bullying and cheating has a way of catching up with you.
As Trump seems to shrink before our eyes, I’ve been thinking of Roy’s final months, in 1986. By then, Roy was a recluse, his body wracked by disease, his mind reeling from dementia. His friends abandoned him. Emboldened, his enemies sought revenge.