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Sweet April, Cruel April: Finding Life Where the World Sees Death, by Donald DeMarco  – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Donald DeMarco, National Catholic Register, April 11, 202

Donald DeMarco, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow of Human Life International. He is professor emeritus at St. Jerome’s University in Waterloo, Ontario, an adjunct professor at Holy Apostles College in Cromwell, Connecticut, and a regular columnist for St. Austin Review. …


COMMENTARY: April exposes the divide between a culture that fears death and a faith that finds life through it.

Donald DeMarcoT.S. Eliot published The Waste Land in the year 1922 amid the ruins of World War I. The opening lines of this highly enigmatic poem are both disturbing and provocative:

April is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

We are currently witnessing unrest on a global scale that threatens to bring about another World War. In our own troubling time, as we approach the month of April, Eliot’s poem has additional meaning for us.  …

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