Did those Catholic justices become warriors at confirmation? Crusaders and apologists? I was confirmed. It didn't mean shit to me. But Catholicism meant a lot. I understood it differently, though, as a religion of love. As a religion that loved creation.
Real Catholics would never presume to know the mind of God, to feel certain of their role or to believe they are saved. Real Catholics, if they deem the circumstances require action, would act with humility. Restraint. They know they might be wrong.
And they would never engage in triumphalism. They would never take pleasure in any provisional victory and, because everything is provisional, they would inhabit a place of humility, self-scrutiny and circumspection. They would be Democrats.
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