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Pray. Vote. Pray. Work. Pray More. by Christopher Bell – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Pray. Vote. Pray. Work. Pray More. by Christopher Bell

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By Christopher Bell, Crisis Magazine, Oct. 7, 2024

Christopher Bell is blessed to be a cradle Catholic. He was born in New York and is the husband of jailed pro-lifer Joan Bell. He is the father of 7 and grandfather of 8.

One can see more clearly that we’re not going to vote for a saint but for someone—and realistically an entire administration—that might do us less harm than another. Don’t expect too much more.

Christopher BellDuring political turmoil, listen to St. Augustine of Hippo, who lived through and wrote about the fall of the Roman Empire “…what are kingdoms (or nations) but gangs of criminals on a large scale? What are criminal gangs, but petty kingdoms?”

That doesn’t make any government look too good. “A gang is a group of men under the command of a leader, bound by a compact of association, in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention,” he wrote in his masterful work The City of God. …

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