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By Martin M. Barillas, LifeSiteNews - In a video recorded in the early 1960s, Archbishop Sheen lectured television viewers about what he called “false compassion” for criminals, prostitutes, drug addicts, and homosexuals. “False compassion, which is gradually growing in this country, is a pity that is shown not to the mug, but to the mugger; not to the family of the murdered, but to the murderer.”… It is the “social slobberers,” said Sheen, who “insist on compassion to the mugger, the dope fiend, the throat-slashers, to the beatniks, to prostitutes, to homosexuals, to the punks, so that today the decent man is practically off the reservation.” He reiterated, “This is a false compassion.”

By Elizabeth A. Mitchell, The Catholic Thing - This truth, vividly portrayed in Frank Capra’s classic film It’s a Wonderful Life, is no less apparent on the real-life stage of the divine drama. Throughout Salvation History, in fact, the Lord chooses to allow the thugs to get the upper hand, only to prove His sovereignty over them. When He allows our strength to appear overwhelmed by likes of a Goliath, He is actually saying, “Now, watch Me work!”… The Lord says to us in such moments, “Be still, and know that I am God!” (Psalm 46:10) He does not say: “Be still, and know that I am trying my best,” or “Be still, and know that I used to do incredible things, but it’s been a while.” No. He says: “Know that I am GOD.”