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The Lent Test, David Warren – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

The Lent Test, David Warren

Fr. Shenan J. Boquet: The Fundamental Role of Parents

March 7, 2025

Saint of the Day for March 10: St. Dominic Savio

March 10, 2025

Elijah in the Desert by Daniele da Volterra, c. 1543-47 [Uffizi Gallery Florence, Italy]

By David Warren, The Catholic Thing, March 7, 2025

David Warren is a former editor of the Idler magazine and columnist in Canadian newspapers. He has extensive experience in the Near and Far East. His blog, Essays in Idleness, is now to be found at: davidwarrenonline.com.

According to the Pew Research Center, and several other samplers of public opinion, the extended decline of Christian belief, and especially of the “traditionalist” kind, has come to a stop.

These are polls, and they display what people think on a question, at the moment when asked. There is not, and cannot be, any predictive value in this; and I don’t think even the present can be predicted by polling, or the past. Only shallow impressions may be had.

But the impressions are themselves significant for public attitudes. People, I have noticed, act quite differently when they think they are in a small minority, or in an overwhelming majority. …

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The Lent Test, David Warren

Fr. Shenan J. Boquet: The Fundamental Role of Parents

Saint of the Day for March 10: St. Dominic Savio

By David Warren, The Catholic Thing, March 7, 2025

According to the Pew Research Center, and several other samplers of public opinion, the extended decline of Christian belief, and especially of the “traditionalist” kind, has come to a stop.

These are polls, and they display what people think on a question, at the moment when asked. There is not, and cannot be, any predictive value in this; and I don’t think even the present can be predicted by polling, or the past. Only shallow impressions may be had.

But the impressions are themselves significant for public attitudes. People, I have noticed, act quite differently when they think they are in a small minority, or in an overwhelming majority. …

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