Jeanie Hannaman

By Anthony Esolen, The Catholic Thing - It is almost impossible, in our time of social alienation, family breakdown, self-imposed detachment, radical sexual individualism, and loneliness, to ask people to consider what a society is; a prerequisite, one might think, for considering the social teachings of the Church, or the social good or harm to be expected from a proposed policy... It is as if we were to ask a shepherd on the steppes to build a fleet of ships, when he has never seen one in his life.

By Peter Wolfgang, Catholic Culture - This is not unique to Generation X, of course. There were good people fighting these—or other—battles long before us. And good people will be fighting these—or other—battles long after us. My point is not to dunk on any other generation. Only to note the good fortune of mine—or that portion of mine—who were blessed to be young when Pope St. John Paul II outlined his bracing vision of a culture of life marching against a culture of death. And who chose to follow that vision, instead of the lesser ones which the world urged on us.