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Ave Maria in the Afternoon – November 7, 2024 – Hour 1

Peter Laffin looks at the key voter demographics to Donald Trump’s victory and Marcus discusses the state of our political rhetoric. We also talk continue our conversation with Matthew Ramage about Pope Benedict XVI’s dialogue with atheists. 

 

Marcus’ Monologue: Truth and Commons Sense

The sheer lack of mutual respect on display during this election is truly disheartening. Kamala Harris’ concession speech and President Biden’s address to the nation today had some nice platitudes, but they ring hollow after months of claims that Donald Trump is a Nazi. How can we break away from the deceitful language that so dominates our discourse? Marcus discusses.

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A Racial and Religious Realignment Carries Trump to Reelection

President-Elect Donald Trump’s victory on Tuesday night signals a stunning shift in America’s political demographics. He made impressive gains among Black and Latino voters and won the Catholic vote by a large margin. We look at the numbers with Peter Laffin.

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A Racial and Religious Realignment Carries Trump to Reelection

 

Peter Laffin is a staff writer for the National Catholic Register and a contributor at the Washington Examiner. His work has appeared in The Catholic Herald, The Catholic Thing, and RealClearPolitics

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Scripture, science, and non-believers: Further insights from Benedict XVI

We spoke recently with Matthew Ramage about Pope Benedict’s dialogue with an atheist. Benedict believed that avoiding life’s most challenging questions “is actually, in essence, a kind of refusal of faith, or, at least, a very profound form of skepticism that fears faith will not be big enough to cope with reality.” We continue the conversation with Matthew.

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Scripture, science, and non-believers: Further insights from Benedict XVI

 

Matthew Ramage is Professor of Theology at Benedictine College where he serves as co-director of its Center for Integral Ecology. His most recent book, From the Dust of the Earth: Benedict XVI, the Bible, and the Theory of Evolution, was published by The Catholic University of America Press in 2022.

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