She herself won’t talk about what Mr. W. is looking at. But boy, wouldn’t his findings influence the coming election? Hey, this is “crook” county, remember. Are we in for another stinko situation? Super-stinko, actually, following on the Jessie Smollett fiasco.

via Editorial: Answer these Jussie Smollett/Kim Foxx questions – Chicago Tribune

I went from watching Amazon’s “Amazing Mrs. Maisel,” a wise-cracking extravaganza, to this from Pope Francis, and didn’t miss a beat.

Pope Francis on Thursday said that modern society “is progressively eroding the understanding of that which makes human life precious” by evaluating life in terms of efficiency and utility. He delivered the warning in an address to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which is meeting in Plenary Assembly.

Speaking specifically to the issue of care for the terminally ill – the focus of the reflections of the Congregation – the Pope talked about the need to “convert the gaze of the heart” in the light of compassion, and praised the work of hospices where the “therapy of dignity” is practiced.

In his address, Pope Francis also encouraged members of the Congregation to continue “with firmness” their studies concerning the revision of the norms on “more serious crimes” (“graviora delicta”) in order to proceed along the path of transparency and of respect for the dignity of the “smallest” among us.

Golly.

via Vatican News

Not even half through this genteel polemic, and my head, she is spinning.

Read it, as I am doing, via Crisis Magazine