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Fr. Paul D. Scalia, The Catholic Thing - Of course, those two things are profoundly related. Childhood wasn’t valued until God became a child. The ancient world didn’t have the same affection or sentimentality for children that we have. In both Aramaic and Greek, the word for child was the same as for servant. It’s not that the world thought children were delightful, and so God became a child. It’s rather that by becoming a child, God sanctified childhood and children.

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - It’s been a couple of years since I touched on the real meaning of the term “faith” for Catholics, and I don’t think I’ve ever applied it to our political context. At this moment in the United States we are faced at the highest level with the impossibility of voting for a candidate who represents truth and justice; the only moral course open to us in voting is to choose the lesser of two evils. I cannot see the future, but I strongly suspect that there are not enough people who will think about things in this way to bring about even that sort of victory, and of course this raises two disturbing questions

By Bishop Joseph Strickland, Substack - I have often, at various times, expressed my deep concern regarding the occurrence of heresy and the atmosphere of apostasy as it emanates from the Vatican in Rome, but I must now ask this question: “Where is the outcry of the shepherds? Where is the courage and conviction to defend our faith?”... I implore all of my fellow bishops to rise up and to protect the Deposit of Faith! And I implore all of the faithful to take to heart these words of Archbishop Fulton Sheen: “Who is going to save our Church? Not our bishops, not our priests and religious: It is up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes, and the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops act like bishops, and your religious act like religious.”