Olympic Outrage and Toothless Christianity, by Sean Fitzpatrick

By Sean Fitzpatrick, Catholic World Report, July 27, 2024

Sean Fitzpatrick is a graduate of Thomas Aquinas College and serves on the faculty of Gregory the Great Academy in Elmhurst, Pennsylvania. He teaches Literature, Mythology, and Humanities. Mr. Fitzpatrick’s writings on education, literature, and culture have appeared in a number of journals including Crisis Magazine, Catholic Exchange, the Cardinal Newman Society’s Journal for Educators, and the Imaginative Conservative. He lives in Scranton with his wife, Sophie, and their seven children.

There is no way to be a Catholic, or work out our salvation, if not through fighting the good fight—and with more rigor and resolve than those who bring the fight to us.

A centerpiece of the much-derided opening ceremonies at the Paris Olympics has rippled the pond of an all-too-common Catholic complacence. Catholics are sadly used to being led like lambs to the slaughter on the altar of woke ideology, which often claims compatibility with Christianity. But this raised some hackles.

During a four-hour spectacle in the pouring rain—which included appearances by Lady Gaga, Celine Dion, and singers disturbingly costumed as the decapitated Marie Antoinette—a tableau (rather, a parody) of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper was recreated down a fashion-show catwalk with a woman as Christ, surrounded by a gaggle of grotesquely gaudy drag queens. ….

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