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A Look Back at 2024, Catholic Culture, and Me, by Peter Wolfgang – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Behnam Norouzi. Unsplash. 2024 Calendar

By Peter Wolfgang, Catholic Culture, Dec 27, 2024

Peter Wolfgang is president of Family Institute of Connecticut Action, a Hartford-based advocacy organization whose mission is to encourage and strengthen the family as the foundation of society. …

 

Since September 5th I have been writing a weekly column for Catholic Culture. If you include one other column from July 22nd and this one, that makes 18 columns in 2024 for Catholic Culture’s newest columnist. This being my last column of the calendar year, let’s look back and assess. How did I do?

The presidential election loomed large. My first piece for Catholic Culture took the Trump-Vance campaign to the woodshed for gutting the GOP’s pro-life platform. I understand the need for prudence in difficult political circumstances but Trump-Vance, it seemed to me, failed Pope St. John Paul II’s requirement that, even when compromising, pro-life politicians must be clear about their goal of ending abortion. ….

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