Gratitude for Tradition’s Guarantee, by Stephen P. White

By Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing, July 29, 2023

Stephen P. White is executive director of The Catholic Project at The Catholic University of America and a fellow in Catholic Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

I am vacationing this week with family in western Michigan. Drive north from Muskegon a ways, then west until the road turns to dirt. In another mile or two, you’ll hit Lake Michigan. There, tucked between the woods and the alfalfa fields, on a bluff overlooking the lake, is the cabin my grandparents built for their family almost fifty years ago.

In those five decades, the family has grown into a multitude. My grandparents are both dead now, but their descendants (including spouses) number well into the hundreds. I lost count years ago. Needless to say, we don’t all fit into the cabin at once. But we still share it. And every week of the summer, some aunt and uncle, or some cousins of mine, take their turn in the house by the lake. It’s a good place. …

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