Jeanie Hannaman

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - Having pointed out those excellent thoughts on how Catholics should respond, I shall not add to them. Instead I will focus on how we should not respond: 1). Don’t whine. It’s not you that the program offended; it was blasphemy: an offense against God. If you say, in effect, “I feel insulted!” you give the Paris organizers the opportunity to reply: “Oh, you poor dear; we’re so sorry if you took offense.” Which is indeed what they’ve said.

By David Carlin, The Catholic Thing - The religion of nationalism, however, unlike the religion of Communism, didn’t necessarily see itself as the enemy of Christianity.  In some countries it imagined that it could co-exist with the old faith and that the two – nationalism and Christianity – could, so to speak, marry one another, or at least cohabit, locked in a not-quite-licit embrace.  In the United States, for instance, being a good Christian made you a better American nationalist, and being an American nationalist made you a better Christian.  Or so at least it has been widely felt.