I'm currently writing a defense of the revelations of Christ to St. Faustina and the Divine Mercy devotion in response to the attacks from (some) radical traditionalists. Buckle up.
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In the final stages of a (currently very long) essay on Fr. Vincent McNabb O.P., a dominican friar and Catholic radical of the interwar period, deeply influential on Dorothy Day, Chesterton, Maritain and (I strongly suspect) J.R.R. Tolkien. McNabb’s activism was in part an extension of the Arts and Crafts movement’s political expression,…
I live in Boston and Kraków, but I’m from the Mississippi Delta and was seven years old during Freedom Summer. I’m white, and I can swear on a stack of Bibles a mile high that my parents and the parents of all of my friends were 100 percent untroubled by those horrific murders. They considered them a by-product of “meddling” by outsiders. Had it not been for the Warren Court and, later, LBJ, nothing would have changed down there. So it’s a bitter pill to swallow as I watch the current SCOTUS turning back the clock. I grew up in a police state, and I’m afraid I’m going to die in one.