By Anthony Esolen, The Catholic Thing - It’s a hard time to be Catholic, but when have the times ever been easy? Still, I wish to recommend a course of action, or a habit of mind, to those among us who are apt to grow discouraged, hearing the ax laid to the temple door. Consider this verse, which I translate from the Hebrew: “And they were both naked, the man and his woman, and were not ashamed. And the serpent was shrewd, of all the living creatures of the field which the Lord God had made.” (Genesis 2:25-3:1)