Finding Hope Amidst the Madness, by Judie Brown

By Judie Brown, Renew America, July 21, 2020

We see madness and a disregard for human life all around us. One example comes from Tennessee, where Kimberly Hopkins recently pled guilty to the attempted first-degree murder of her mother. Her elaborate scheme was supposed to make it look like her mother wanted assisted suicide, but in the end her true motive came out.

You could say that justice was done, but the fact is that this woman had no regard for the life of her mother.

As we ponder this, we remember the prophetic words of St. John Paul II, who taught that there is a crisis of civilization “which has become apparent especially in the West, which is highly developed from the standpoint of technology but is interiorly impoverished by its tendency to forget God or to keep him at a distance. This crisis of civilization must be countered by the civilization of love, founded on the universal values of peace, solidarity, justice and liberty, which find their full attainment in Christ.”  …

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