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Guest Commentary Although I left the Catholic Church many years ago, I have a great deal of respect for members of the Society of Jesus — Jesuit priests and brothers. As one of their missions is education, Jesuits have a reputation for being first-rate scholars who take on controversial issues regarding the Catholic Church. Pope Francis is a Jesuit, the first pontiff from the Society of Jesus. Writing in America — The Jesuit Review magazine, Fr. James Martin posits that some Catholic clergy helped give rise to mob violence at the U.S. Capitol in January. He provides numerous examples of...

Bishops have already created a working group to deal with the “difficult” situation of his presidency. Priests from Maryland to Fort Worth have preached that the president-elect isn’t even really a Catholic. But to many millions of Catholics who voted for him, Joe Biden and his focus on healing are a compassionate, Pope Francis-like model of their faith. Catholics’ views on Biden seem to serve as a proxy for what kinds of Catholicism they think most urgently needs to be advanced. Should it be more focused on qualities like engagement and empathy or on purifying doctrine? Is it as inte...

Congratulations. >> welcome back to "hardball." that was outgoing chair donna brazile announcing the new leader of the democratic national committee over the weekend. former labor secretary tom perez, first latino leader of the democratic national committee. the contest for party chair turned into a proxy war you might see between the obama/clinton wing represented by mr. perez and the bernie sanders wing which backed keith ellison. politico reported ed meeks was reportedly threatened by supporters of ellison and sanders with a primary challenge if he backed anyone else. perez, however, had a ...

Democratic national committee to mr. tom perez. congratulations. >> welcome back to "hardball." that was outgoing chair donna brazile announcing the new leader of the democratic national committee over the weekend. former labor secretary tom perez, first latino leader of the democratic national committee. the contest for party chair turned into a proxy war you might see between the obama/clinton ring represented by mr. perez and the bernie sanders wing which backed keith ellison. politico reported ed meeks was reportedly threatened by supporters of ellison and sanders with a primary challenge ...

And i love ed's perspective on this. imagine if obama had said the chairman of the joint chiefs will come when i ask him to come in the room, but i'm putting the editor of buzz feed on the principles committee. would republicans be -- have a blind blowing experience or what? >> i have no problem putting steve bannon on whatever the president wants him to. ed meeks was a counselor to the president. he served this in a similar role. i think the key thing is the points you made earlier. the joint chiefs chairman is the advisor to the president and to the secretary of defense by statute. the whole...