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Make Straight the Way, by Sheryl Collmer – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Make Straight the Way, by Sheryl Collmer

The Cardinal Electors, Then and Now, by Raymond J. de Souza

May 7, 2025

Brotherhood, the Missing Icon, by Anthony Esolen

May 8, 2025

Notre-Dame Cathedral of Paris. No attribution found. Source: Crisis Magazine.

By Sheryl Collmer, Crisis Magazine, May 8, 2025

Sheryl Collmer is an independent consultant for several non-profit organizations. She holds a Master’s in Theological Studies from the University of Dallas, as well as an MBA. From her home in the diocese of Tyler, Texas, she studies homesteading, history, and the currents in the Church.

The last dozen years have been tragic; now we have work ahead of us.

It is so much easier to destroy than to build. It takes barely a second and hardly any effort to tear something down; it requires no imagination, dedication, or moral perseverance.

Watch a young child carefully build a crenellated castle out of blocks, an all-day labor of love, then proudly display his work to his parents. Watch another child eye the enjoyment and casually kick the castle down in an instant. The ratio of time and energy is 100 to 1.

A man can start his own business with a product he invented, building up something useful to the community—and a destroyer can come along with no expertise at all and burn the business down, physically or through commercial dirty tricks. …

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Make Straight the Way, by Sheryl Collmer

The Cardinal Electors, Then and Now, by Raymond J. de Souza

Brotherhood, the Missing Icon, by Anthony Esolen

By Sheryl Collmer, Crisis Magazine, May 8, 2025

The last dozen years have been tragic; now we have work ahead of us.

It is so much easier to destroy than to build. It takes barely a second and hardly any effort to tear something down; it requires no imagination, dedication, or moral perseverance.

Watch a young child carefully build a crenellated castle out of blocks, an all-day labor of love, then proudly display his work to his parents. Watch another child eye the enjoyment and casually kick the castle down in an instant. The ratio of time and energy is 100 to 1.

A man can start his own business with a product he invented, building up something useful to the community—and a destroyer can come along with no expertise at all and burn the business down, physically or through commercial dirty tricks. …

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