Editor’s Note: Fr. Robert Barron speaks on Pope John Paul II in this brief excerpt from his Catholicism series. He comments on the amazing role the Holy Father played in the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe… “If someone would have told me when I was a kid in the 1970’s that the Soviet Union and its communist empire would […]
democracy
In God We Trust and Why it Matters
Editor’s Note: Fr. Robert Barron examines and comments on “Why it Matters that Our Democracy Trusts in God. He observes from history that “When the Creator God is explicitly denied, what follows, in very short order, is the denial of these inalienable rights…” the rights of man that Jefferson and the U.S. Constitution saw as coming from God and not […]
Daily Quote by G.K. Chesterton
A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep. – G. K. Chesterton Print this entry
Daily Quote from G.K. Chesterton
A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep. – G.K. Chesterton Print this entry