Strange New World: A Guide, by Francis X. Maier

Francis X. Maier, The Catholic Thing, July 27, 2022

Francis X. Maier is a senior fellow in Catholic studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Yardley Borough, home to my family for the past eleven years, is a beautifully quaint old Pennsylvania community nestled along the Delaware River.  By “old” I mean founded in 1682 by pious Quakers.  If you walk just a few dozen yards from our back porch, you find yourself in the Slate Hill Cemetery.  It’s tiny, rarely visited, and not always well-kept, but listed on the National Register of Historic Places, nonetheless.  The graves date back to the late 17^th century.  Many of the gravestones are broken or stripped clean of names by the endless cycle of weather and time.

My wife, my youngest son, and I walk there during the summer. .,..

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