There have been many times in both the recent UK parliamentary election, and the forthcoming US presidential election, when I have been reminded of the words of the great Desert Father, St Anthony of Egypt, who said: “A time is coming when people will go mad, and when they meet someone who is not mad, they will turn to him and say, ‘You are out of your mind', just because he is not like them.”
Recent attempts by Tim Walz and Kamala Harris to portray Catholic politicians Robert F. Kennedy Jr, often known as RFK, and JD Vance, as “weird", have again reminded me of those words of St Anthony.
