By Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing, Oct. 12, 2023
Michael Pakaluk, an Aristotle scholar and Ordinarius of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, is a professor in the Busch School of Business at the Catholic University of America.
Note: Be sure to tune in to EWTN tonight (Thursday, October 12th) at 8 PM for the latest episode of ‘The World Over,’ featuring the Papal Posse (host Raymond Arroyo, TCT Editor-in-Chief Robert Royal, and Fr. Gerald E. Murray). They will be discussing the Synod on Synodality and its impact on the future of the Church – and other topics of interest to faithful Catholics. Check your local listings for the channel in your area. Shows are usually available shortly after first airing on the EWTN YouTube channel.
I think about Shani Louk and pray for her, the 22-year-old German-Israeli tattoo artist and globe-trotting pacifist, who was kidnapped by Hamas from the Tribe of Nova rave festival in the Negev Desert. The video has gone viral (I have not watched it) of terrorists – big men with rifles – sitting on her limp body in the back of a pickup truck, spitting on it, and parading it around as they shout, “Allah is great!”
The latest news suggests she is still alive although suffering from a serious head injury. For me, she stands for the several hundred other innocent men, women, and children who were either gunned down in cold blood by Hamas or kidnapped as hostages. …