We Are the Front Lines, by Elizabeth A. Mitchell

By Elizabeth A. Mitchell, The Catholic Thing, July 16, 2022

Dr. Elizabeth A. Mitchell, S.C.D., received her doctorate in Institutional Social Communications from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome where she worked as a translator for the Holy See Press Office and L’Osservatore Romano. …

If you had told me a year ago that police with automatic weapons would be stationed at the intersections of our small town Fourth of July parade, I would never have believed you.

If you had told me that the “Dancing Grannies” troupe would march this year behind a “Remembering Our Fallen” banner, and that the fallen would refer to the grannies themselves, I would have questioned your sanity.

And if you had told me, even on the morning of July the Fourth, that a rooftop shooter would target an Illinois parade, I would have been stopped in my tracks.

And yet, all of this is true.  And the fallen are regular, simple, civilians.  Young and old.  Killed while exercising the very freedoms we hold dear, celebrating life and the nation we love. …

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