Against the Woke Heresy, by David Warren

The truth will win, often more quickly than we expected. This is an optimistic view, often maintained by the Catholic Church, such as in those moments when she is put to the test.

Yet it is not a formal doctrine, nor was it a promise of Christ, who instead warned us not to take things for granted (except persecution). So I will have to present it as a hopeful opinion. Still, I have more confidence in it than do the other merchants of trends.

Hope itself is not an argument for complacency, but rather, an argument against despair. The Christian virtue of Hope – like all the other graceful mysteries – presents difficulties to the narrowly rationalist mind, and to its logical conscience, steeped in naturalism. …