Catholicism Is About Swords

Our Faith is about swords, not hand-holding. Those swords are first directed at our sins, and then directed at the evils in the world and in our Church.

Published in Crisis Magazine on February 29, 2024

It may seem like a lifetime ago, but some may still recall the habited Catholic nun who spoke at the Republican National Convention of August 2020. She held up her Rosary and exclaimed: “This is our most powerful weapon!”

With lightning speed, a post appeared on social media from a priest. He moaned that the good nun’s declaration was an unfit statement for Catholics: “Too bellicose,” he moaned, “we are a religion of peace.”

Such gauzy drivel has been filling the heads of Catholics for some half-century, gaining traction because it pours from the lips of those in authority. It has enfeebled the Church and left the Faithful enervated, susceptible to any stray intellectual virus concocted by the cancel culture. The “Jesus-gets-us” agitprop Super Bowl commercial and the most recent LGBTQ+ desecration of St. Patrick’s Cathedral are both graphic examples of its encompassing ooze.  

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