Yes, We Should Celebrate Columbus Day, by Peter Wolfgang

By Peter Wolfgang, Catholic Culture, Oct 11, 2024

Peter Wolfgang is president of Family Institute of Connecticut Action, a Hartford-based advocacy organization whose mission is to encourage and strengthen the family as the foundation of society.  …

We are now four years removed from “the Great Awokening.” That is, the eruption of anti-American riots and ideological idiocy that occurred all across our country in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.

That fentanyl and meth made Floyd’s death more likely does not alter the fact that he was murdered. One need not agree with how Floyd’s murder was exploited to understand the outrage or to sympathize with those who marched for justice.

But exploited it was. In ways too numerous to count. “Mostly peaceful protests,” that weren’t, were just the tip of the iceberg.

Here in Connecticut, the Great Awokening mostly passed us by. Our state was, unfortunately, already pretty Woke to begin with. There was, however, one big exception. An aspect of the Great Awokening that really should have concentrated the minds of our fellow Catholics in 2020 much more than it did. …

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