By Bobby Hesley
In watching the most recent Republican debate, all I could think of is Cardinal John Henry Newman, one of the most forceful teachers on the ethics of lying, evasion, and equivocation when asked a direct question that justice demands a direct answer to. These three ways of dodging the truth have been mastered by politicians, both Democrat and Republican, and on 3/3/16, we really saw it on the Republican side, particularly from Donald Trump.
Catholic moral theologians have been vocal on the issue of lying and degrees of honesty for centuries, going all the way back to St. Augustine in the patristic era (Augustine wrote a famous tract called "On Lying"), St. Thomas Aquinas in his Summa Theologiae during the Middle ages, St. Alphonsus Ligouri in his various books on moral theology, and finally John Henry Newman as well as many others after him......Here's my personal analysis of Trump in the last debate: like all dictators and despots, Donald Trump proved to be a master evader and equivocator -– a man extremely talented at saying a lot without saying anything at all. Basically a Republican version of Barack Obama.....
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