Catholic Replies
Editor’s Note: Commenting on the current chaos in our land, Fr. George Rutler of the Church of St. Michael in New York City wrote in his parish bulletin:“The supine ‘virtue signaling’ of failed leaders bending their knees to barbarians makes them poster children for what Lenin called his ‘useful idiots.’ Civilization stands on the precipice of what already seemed chaotic as William Butler Yeats perceived over one hundred years ago. ‘Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, / The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony of innocence is drowned; / The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.’“Demagogues who lack all conviction ignored…Continue Reading