Tag: America’s 250th Anniversary

America Must Not Become a Land of Hate

There are terrible injustices in our country.  There are people in jail who don’t belong there and people on the street who belong in jail.  But there is no country on earth where one is likely to get a fairer trial or where one will have a…

Five for the Fourth – The Catholic Thing

Outright Love for This Land Robert Royal In Magnifica humanitas, Pope Leo invokes the Biblical story of Nehemiah rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem as a poignant alternative to the Tower of Babel’s effort to reach Heaven without God. It’s a good…

Politics Does Not Equal Government

The 250th birthday of the United States is a good time to remember that 1776 was the year of a new nation, not a new government. It would take another eleven years for the Founders to formulate what the government would look like, and two more…