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The Answer to Our Anger: Becoming America’s Holy Ones, by Kevin Wells – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

The Answer to Our Anger: Becoming America’s Holy Ones, by Kevin Wells

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By Kevin Wells, Catholic Exchange, July 1, 2026

Kevin Wells is a former Major League Baseball writer, Catholic speaker, and author of The Hermit: The Priest Who Saved a Soul, a Marriage, and a Family (Ignatius Press) and Priest and Beggar: The Heroic Life of Venerable Aloysius Schwartz (Ignatius Press). His best-selling book The Priests We Need to Save the Church was published by Sophia Institute Press in 2019.

As our nation turns its attention to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, I’ve found myself wrapped up by a sobering event: 9/11. I am recalling the manner Americans instantly sought God in our collective grief.

A quarter century after America’s worship spaces overflowed with grieving citizens, there is little reason to believe the anniversary of our nation’s birth will unite us—not even briefly. The heartbreaking truth is that our divisions seem only to deepen year by year.

For the faithful, this dark reality carries a particular weight. We know our fractiousness is not just a civic catastrophe; but a seemingly irreparable spiritual wound. Even Christians, who are commanded by Jesus to love their enemies, seem to hate them more and more. Political balkanization, moral relativism, emotivism, and the muted prophetic voice of hesitant Catholic clergy have all worked to pull a heavy tarpaulin over pleasing anthems, Baseball, Apple Pie, and Chevrolet jingles, and movies like It’s a Wonderful Life and Rocky. ….

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