“If other ages felt less, they saw more, even though they saw with the blind, prophetical, unsentimental eye of acceptance, which is to say, of faith. In the absence of this faith now, we govern by tenderness. It is a tenderness which, long cut off from the person of Christ, is wrapped in theory. When tenderness is detached from the source of tenderness, its logical outcome is terror. It ends in forced-labor camps and in the fumes of the gas chamber.”

— Catholic novelist and short story writer Flannery O’Connor

--Link to this week's arts and culture column expanding on the above:[ Ссылка ]

--Some commentary on O'Connor's short story: "The Enduring Chill:
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I'll be "presenting," as they say, with Barb Nicolosi at a Catholic Art Institute "Retreat for Artists," June 21-22, Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land, Washington DC--join us!
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AND/OR join me at Kylemore Abbey in Connermara, Ireland September 8-13 for a week-long Memoir Writing Workshop! Get it out, get it down.
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PRAY FOR US, ST. JOSEPH, MOST CHASTE SPOUSE OF MARY.

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