along with harold ford and dana perino. the five. yeah, merry christmas, america! get ready because we have a santa size show ahead including our naughty and nice list. oh, they re filthy. buckle up to gift exchange, we ll melt your minds into a puddle of syrup. first, time for the fastest. a new survey says 48% of people have gone to a holiday party just for the treats. among the top flavors of this time of the year, ginger bread, salted caramel and peppermint. we have a holiday spread here, peppermint stick and chocolate world from the cheesecake factory. you know that s not a factory. i found it out when i went on the tour. candy cane blizzard from dairy queen, which is our royalty. harold, i don t understand how they make choices when it comes to holiday sweets. for example, no one likes fruit juice, right? no one bites into those chocolates. they just leave them there. why do they persist an including such terrible sweets? well, in the christmas spirit it i
hopefully it was a big hole because santa is heading home. soon voters start heading to th polls with an economy that look like it is they re top issue on their minds. welcome everyone and merry christmas, this is a special edition of your world. in less than a month until iowa and new hampshire, many americans aren t feeling too festive about their bottom lines . in new poll shows 78 percent of voters think the economy is in bad shape with a lot of the blame falling on the white house . will this be a key factor? let s get the read from our holiday political panel. lauren, let me start with you. everyone s talking about the economy. well, i think that voters don t just care about the economy, they care about a better life, they want a better economy and a better life, they care about healthcare prices, they care about abortion access. and they care about holding corporations accountable for price gouging and for continuin to charge high prices even as inflation comes d
elected me, a simple, humble worker in god s vineyards. for decades cardinal row joseph ratsinger, he battled relativism, what s true for one person might not be true for someone else. happy birthday to you pope benedict s 2008 visit to the united states would be remembered not only for his birthday celebration in the white house, a stop at ground zero and mass at yankee stadium, but also in the way in which he addressed the sex abuse crisis so directly. from the sacred ministry, this is absolutely who is guilty cannot be priest. the sex abuse would haunt his papacy as the scandal unfolded in europe and charged that benedict s record on abuse was mixed and there were other problems as well. benedict offended muslims with a speech suggesting islam could be a violent religion and sparked a global uproar when he lifted the excommunication for four bishops and one of them turned out to be a holocaust denier. a priest having discovered both vocations while growing up
Largest scam, the founders of legionnaire s christ and i was a part of the disorder. this man founder was a fraud. and the pope john paul didn t believe those accusations against him. but pope benedict that those were false and i discerned becoming a priest in the first place, so, it s a very long conversation, but i m grateful to both pope francis and pope benedict. david: that s a great example not only for you personally, but it shows he was an administrator, he did know how to be an effective pope when necessary and that shouldn t be remembered just for resignation and who knows, maybe some day like his predecessor, he ll become a saint as well. jonathan, father sirico, thank you. more after this.