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By Jennifer Hartline, Crisis Magazine, Oct. 28, 2023

Jennifer Hartline is a wife, mother, and a daughter of the Church. She is a contributor to The Stream, Catholic Stand, and Catholic Online.

Good and loving fathers do not welcome predators into the family home.

There was a man of great authority, position, and influence who had many daughters and sons. This man’s place in the world was singular in rank yet also one of great service. To him was given the rights and duties of a Second in Command of a vast army; a household with no parallel; a territory with no rival on earth. He was in possession of the “keys to the kingdom,” if you will. The importance of his task also had no rival on earth.

Much was given to this man, and so much more would be required. Much was entrusted to him. Much was asked of him. Indeed, his was not an enviable position, unless one failed to grasp the true responsibility and was enamored with power and filled with ego. True leaders know the personal cost, and they willingly pay with their own sweat and blood. Dictators know only personal gain, and they will exact payment from everyone else. …

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