Thursday, March 18, 2010

The lesson of St. Patrick for our political outlook today



The_Anchoress, “Fear is useless, what is needed is trust” (First Things, March 17, 2010): "Pondering the possibility of America being “remade” under the auspices of a Health Care Non-Vote-Deeming, I found myself thinking of St. Patrick, and the conflict between the English and the Irish; the Irish famine and the longview of God, which we cannot see or understand...."

[Hat tip to J.M.]

1 comment:

Dark Horse said...

Cool image. I liked Tarantino's movie, even tho it would ahve been grusome unless you took it as a comic book.

The meditation on St. Patrick puts history in perspective, even tho it's not what every pew sitter would like to hear. Most of us are like kids. We want everything now. We don't wanna wait of God to work things out generations from now. But the writer's viewpoint is what we Catholics should think.