Much as I appreciate my freedom to exercise Catholic citizenship, I’ll be relieved to get past this election, bitter and noisy and chaotic as it is. I don’t think I’m the only one who feels that way. Whoever handles social media for my local Diocese brightened my Facebook feed the other day with a simpleContinue reading “An Election Day destination (not the polls)”
Category Archives: Faith
Maritain on faith and the democratic ideal
“Faith in the dignity of the human personality, in brotherly love, in justice, and in the worth of the human soul, outweighing the whole material universe – faith, in a word, in the conception of man and his destiny which the gospel has deposited at the very center of human history – this faith isContinue reading “Maritain on faith and the democratic ideal”
Grace in a graceless season
Spare a moment and a prayer for the political types, please and thank you. I’m one of them. Public policy is part of my vocation. Times like these, I’m tempted to wish it were otherwise. This is a plague-on-both-your-houses time. Something C.S. Lewis wrote in Mere Christianity captures my attitude. I feel a strong desireContinue reading “Grace in a graceless season”
Ellen Kolb 