Today’s Register Radio features an interview with National Catholic Register senior editor Joan Frawley Desmond about her time with the Archdiocese of Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley. Naturally, the discussion dealt a great deal with the repercussions of the clergy sexual abuse crisis and the efforts undertaken by Cardinal O’Malley to rebuild trust and the Church in Boston. To learn what insights Desmond took from her interview with Cardinal O’Malley, listen to the show.
In our second half, National Review Online editor and National Catholic Register columnist Kathryn Jean Lopez joined us to talk about the GOP Primaries and the rise of Catholic Rick Santorum. Lopez offered her insights as to why Santorum took second place in the Iowa caucuses and discussed whether he offers a different kind of Catholic candidate.
The program can be downloaded and listened to at Register Radio’s webpage or at EWTN Radio.
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I can’t believe that people who should be supportive of the Santorum candidacy still say “Santorum took second place in the Iowa caucuses”. 6.6 hundred thousandths of a percent of the vote total is not enough of a margin to declare one or the other a winner or a loser. Think of how ridiculous others will look if you call it a tie, and they try to contend that it was a victory for Romney. Throw in the one little qualifier of “effectively”, and no one has any grounds to dispute it.
When the Iowa GOP certifies the vote next week, I hope they will have the courage to correct the election night miscount. Santorum actually won by 12 votes. It’s been documented and sworn to that two of the 53 votes cast in one precinct for Romney was incorrectly transcribed as 22. The Iowa GOP website acknowledges the situation but is waiting for the certification before announcing any changes.
In the meantime, Romney gets headline after headline that he “won” Iowa and is the first candidate since 1976 to win both Iowa and New Hampshire. Had Santorum gotten credit for the win, the perception of two candidates each with a victory would open the door for Santorum.
Edward True, the teller who’s affidavit explains what happened, is now wondering if this was an honest mistake or something else. True’s photographic evidence of the actual dispersion of votes ion his precinct is also backed up by his fellow counters and the GOP County Chair, yet aside from a handful of media outlets in Iowa and Fox News, the story hasn’t gotten the attention it should.
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