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in 1996 Betty MacDonald's family had been interviewed by journalist and author Wolfgang Hampel.
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Betty MacDonald Interviews published 2009 on CD/DVD by Betty MacDonald Fan Club incl. the biography of Betty MacDonald written by Wolfgang Hampel - The Kettles' Million Dollar Egg, The Egg and Betty, The Tragic End Of Robert Heskett, Betty MacDonald in Hollywood, BettyMacDonald's Illness and other biographical stories.
Betty MacDonald fan club founder Wolfgang Hampel's outstanding Betty MacDonald fan club items and interviews are included in
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
THE EGG AND US:
CONTEXTUALIZATION
AND HISTORICIZATION
OF BETTY MACDONALD’S WORKS
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SAMANTHA HOEKSTRA
A Thesis submitted to the
Department of History
in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the degree of
Master of Arts
Degree Awarded:
Spring 2014
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Pope Francis Suggests Donald Trump Is ‘Not Christian’
Pope On Donald Trump's Christianity
Pope Francis, while flying back to
the Vatican from Mexico, said that anyone who wants to build a wall
along the Mexican border is not a Christian.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS on Publish Date February 18, 2016.
Photo by Alessandro Di Meo/Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata, via Associated Press.
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ABOARD THE PAPAL AIRLINER — Inserting himself into the Republican presidential race, Pope Francis on Wednesday suggested that Donald J. Trump “is not Christian” because of the harshness of his campaign promises to deport more immigrants and force Mexico to pay for a wall along the border.
“A
person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and
not building bridges, is not Christian,” Francis said when a reporter
asked him about Mr. Trump on the papal airliner as he returned to Rome
after his six-day visit to Mexico.
The pope’s remarks came during a wide-ranging, midair news conference in which he also waded into the question of whether the Roman Catholic Church should grant an exception
to its prohibitions on abortion and birth control in regions where the
Zika virus is causing a public health emergency, including in much of
Catholic-dominated Latin America.
We’re interested in hearing from our Catholic readers
about whether the back-and-forth between the pope and Mr. Trump has
influenced how they think about the 2016 election.
In
answering the question, Francis made a distinction between abortion and
birth control. He flatly ruled out condoning abortion, which he
described as “a crime, an absolute evil.” But he seemed more open to
making an exception for contraception, citing Pope Paul VI’s decision in
the 1960s to make an emergency exception and permit nuns in the Belgian
Congo to use contraceptives because they were in danger of rape.
“Avoiding
pregnancy is not an absolute evil,” Francis said. “In certain cases, as
in this one, as in that one I mentioned of Blessed Paul VI, it was
clear. I would also urge doctors to do their utmost to find vaccines
against these mosquitoes that carry this disease.”
Francis’
comments on Mr. Trump and the possibility of using contraceptives to
prevent the spread of the Zika virus are certain to garner strong
reactions. On Thursday, the World Health Organization advised the sexual
partners of pregnant women to use condoms or abstain from sex if they
live in Zika-affected areas or are returning from them.
The
church has long opposed the use of artificial contraceptives, a ban
reaffirmed by Paul VI in his 1968 papal encyclical, Humanae Vitae. Many
Catholics across Latin America and elsewhere ignore the edict, however.
Francis
made his remarks about Mr. Trump barely three hours after he had
concluded his Mexico trip by presiding over a huge Mass in the border
city of Ciudad Juárez. He first walked to the edge of the Rio Grande —
as American security officers watched from the other side — to lay
flowers at a new memorial commemorating those who have died trying to
cross the border.
Francis
then celebrated Mass, as a crowd of more than 200,000 people stood
barely a stone’s throw from the border and listened to the pope call for
compassion for immigrants fleeing chaos, poverty and war.
Mr.
Trump has staked out controversial positions on immigration, vowing to
force Mexico to build a wall and also increase deportations. He has also
made inflammatory comments accusing Mexican immigrants of being rapists
and criminals.
Asked
whether he would try to influence Catholics in how they vote in the
presidential election, Francis said he “was not going to get involved in
that” but then repeated his criticism of Mr. Trump, with a caveat.
“I
say only that this man is not Christian if he has said things like
that,” Francis said. “We must see if he said things in that way and in
this I give the benefit of the doubt.”
Mr.
Trump responded immediately at a campaign rally in Kiawah Island, S.C.
Discussing the Islamic State, “their primary goal is to get to the Vatican.”
“If
and when the Vatican is attacked,” he said, “the pope would only wish
and have prayed that Donald Trump would have been elected president.”
Earlier in his remarks, he said, “I like the pope.”
In the days before Francis arrived at the border, Mr. Trump criticized the visit,
calling the pope a political person and accusing him of acting at the
behest of the Mexican government. “I think that the pope is a very
political person,” he said.
Mr. Trump, in an interview with Fox Business Network,
said: “I don’t think he understands the danger of the open border that
we have with Mexico. I think Mexico got him to do it because they want
to keep the border just the way it is. They’re making a fortune, and
we’re losing.”
Mr.
Trump is a Presbyterian and has been trying to make inroads among
evangelical voters as he seeks to win the coming set of Southern
primaries.
Asked
about the comments, Francis laughed. “Thank God he said I was a
politician because Aristotle defined the human person as ‘animal
politicus,’ ” he said.
“So
at least I am a human person,” the pope said. “As to whether I am a
pawn, well, maybe, I don’t know. I’ll leave that up to your judgment and
that of the people.”
Francis also took questions on a handful of other issues.
Throughout his appearances, he spoke repeatedly about the human costs of Mexico’s drug violence, yet he never met with the families of the 43 students who disappeared in Guerrero State,
a case that has caused deep embarrassment for the government. Francis
said that he had wanted to meet the families in Juárez, but that
practicality and dissension among the families prevented a meeting from
happening. Mexico’s drug violence, he said, is “a great pain that I’m
taking with me, because this country doesn’t deserve this drama.”
Asked
about the continuing problem of clerical sexual abuse, Francis defended
his record despite criticism that he is not sufficiently focused on the
issue. He listed the things he has done to speed up prosecution of
cases in the Vatican’s judicial system, but agreed that “we need to work
faster, because we’re behind with the cases.”
The
pope made no mention of the recent controversy that erupted after an
outspoken member was suspended from his duties on the special commission
Francis appointed for the protection of minors. But he described
clerical sex abuse as “a monstrosity” and said bishops who transferred
abusive priests to protect them should resign.
Francis
noted that as soon as next month he is expected to release his
much-awaited document on the theme of family, in which one topic on the
table is whether divorced and civilly remarried Catholics should be
allowed to receive communion. It is an acutely delicate subject within
the church, and the pope ducked a direct answer. When pressed, he said
that “all doors are open” but that the church could not simply say “from
here on, they can have communion.”
Finally, Francis was asked about recent reports about newly disclosed letters revealing the closeness of the relationship between Pope John Paul II and Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka,
a philosopher and author who collaborated with John Paul. Francis
argued that a close friendship between a man and woman “is not a sin,
it’s a friendship. A romantic relationship with a woman who is not your
wife — that is a sin. Understand?”
He
said that popes were men but that they needed advice and friendship
from women. Such relationships need not stir suspicions, he said. “The
pope, too, has a heart that can have a healthy, holy friendship with a
woman,” he said.
