WASHINGTON (AP) — To all the political junkies yearning for a contested Republican convention this summer: not so fast.
It's still possible for Donald Trump to clinch the nomination by the end of the primaries on June 7. His path is narrow and perilous. But it's plausible and starts with a big victory Tuesday in his home state New York primary.
"So why do you think people find the choice you've made to be such a novelty, even a kind of scandal?"
"I think, it's because this is a hidden life," Brother John Braught says, "Many people don't even know that monks still exist." He continues, "People don't know what it is, or what happens here. So there's a kind of monk mystique behind the enclosure." Tall and made more so by the length of his black habit, Br. John Braught is one of three Society of Saint John (SSJE) brothers who've agreed to speak with me for forty minutes each on this chilly Maundy Thursday of Holy Week.
