Jack Danforth
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 10 Jan
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theological positions everything else but what what is the order of your priorities in your life and it certainly should not be self and it certainly should not be politics either by the way we've been talking about
Well, the UN is inherently weak.
The General Assembly is so weak that it's really just a sounding board.
The Security Council is the one power center in the UN and it's very hard to get anything done because
Five countries have the power to veto.
So everything has to be acceptable, not just to the US and Britain and France, but also to Russia and China.
So it's inherently weak.
It is a place to
to experience the positions of other countries and for them to understand the positions of the US.
And it's also, from time to time, a place, when we did this with regard to Sudan, where you can focus attention on a crisis and bring the world's attention to that.
And I think that is a salutary effect.
Here's what I think.
The Catholic church has the convening power.
not just within itself, but because of its size and its reach.
It has convening power.
The Catholic Church
If it wanted to see this as its ministry, that is, to America, to hold the country together, it could take the initiative.
It could take the initiative in bringing various religious communities together, and particularly at the congregational level, at the local level.
What can we do to have a healing ministry for our neighbors?
How can we create a situation where families aren't broken up over politics?
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