Narrow Is The Gate

Fred Schilling/Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States

If there's one thing that the Senate confirmation hearings in the USA have reminded us, it is that being Catholic is never easy.

Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy, that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few. - Matthew 7:13-14

Bigotry is not difficult to find among the senators who voted against now Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett. The vote in the Senate revealed that the Democratic Party, true to its foundations, is very much the party of an ignorant illiberal elite that defines everyone and everything in a manner that preserves the comfort of the same elitists, a comfort or hedonism of monstrous proportions that has provoked and continues to condone the annihilation of tens of millions of pre-born human lives deemed an inconvenience. That an innocent pre-born human life can be judged a threat to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" is proof of the worst corruption of the mind and heart.

Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett - Catholic, wife, mother, judge - is a reminder that civility is not dead. She brings a superb intelligence to the bench and provides an example of authentic compassion to a society confused by Hollywood morality. She is a model of virtue, as every Catholic should be, and we would do well to follow her example and the example of the One Whom she serves - our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Pray for the grace to lead godly lives. Pray for Amy Coney Barrett and her family - for their health and well being, their perseverance and protection.