Jeanie Hannaman

By Msgr. Richard C. Antall, Crisis Magazine - "Mendacity,” cried Big Daddy in Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Our culture seems to be built on it, and our politics especially. The Japanese writer Yukio Mishima had a character say, “The essence of politics is this. Listen. There is no truth in politics. Politics knows that there is no truth in it. So politics is required to make a counterfeit of truth.” The counterfeiting of “facts” is perhaps the most striking of the campaign we have been exposed to, and this has been aided and abetted by an elite that is in control of so much of the access we have to news and opinion.

By Peter Wolfgang, Catholic Culture - In 2020, Ross Douthat wrote “The Decadent Society.” It is a book in which, as Vox described it, “Douthat’s definition of a ‘decadent society’ is that we’re trapped in a stale system that keeps spinning in place, reproducing the same arguments and frustrations over and over again.”... Could there be any better description of how we think about Catholics and voting in the United States? It has been the same thing forever. Or at least since the 1980s... That was the decade in which New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, in 1984, made his infamous “personally opposed, but…” speech about abortion at Notre Dame University.