It may come as a surprise that many Catholics in America will have voted for Donald Trump in this week’s presidential election. It is hard to think of a man more coarse, vulgar, obnoxious, bumptious and offensive. Like Bill Clinton and JFK he has a history of philandering, but he boasts about it, which makes it worse.
Why, then, would a devout Catholic prefer him to Hillary Clinton? “A big issue,” wrote an American friend of many years’ standing, a former English lecturer at Notre Dame, “is the Supreme Court. The President gets to appoint the next Justice when one retires or dies. There is a good chance Trump would appoint a conservative … Hillary, on the other hand, would appoint liberals. More and more, major issues in the US are decided in the Supreme Court rather than in Congress.”
