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Comfortable Catholicism Must End, by Constance T. Hull – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Comfortable Catholicism Must End, by Constance T. Hull

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By Constance T. Hull, Catholic Exchange,

Constance T. Hull is a wife, mother, spiritual mother, college campus minister, teacher, and writer. She holds a Master’s in Theology and has also published at Crisis Magazine, Public Discourse, and The Federalist. Over the years she has been interviewed on a variety of Catholic radio shows and podcasts and has done multiple speaking events. Constance’s favorite places to be are in front of the Blessed Sacrament and enjoying God’s magnificent Creation with her family and others. You can still contact her through her inactive blog Swimming the Depths.

 

I knew very little about Charlie Kirk. His face popped up in my YouTube feed from time-to-time. On those occasions, I saw that he engaged with young people on a wide variety of issues. I was sitting by a creek in the shadow of the Beartooth Mountains near Red Lodge, Montana when I saw he had been murdered on a college campus. I was in Montana because my mother had survived a massive heart attack a few days prior. My family and I were taking a moment of rest in God’s creation after a very difficult year. The news stunned me and filled me with great sorrow.

In light of his assassination and the shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church and School in Minneapolis, it’s become clear that things are changing. The dark forces many of us have known are at work in the culture are spilling over into the lives of everyday Catholics and people of goodwill. It is starting to cost more to be Catholic in this country with each passing day. The martyrdom of two young school children at prayer is a small glimpse of what our brothers and sisters in Christ live each day around the world in places like Nigeria and Congo. …

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