And, so, abortion (contraception, physician-assisted euthanasia, et al, ad nauseam) is of that aspect of war, ongoing and awful. Christianity is in ever-greater need of the faithful warriors who will draw the line and stand their ground.

For such as Your warriors, Lord, we do pray.

This is a link to Solzhenitsyn’s address at Harvard, another institution where man trumps God. Needless to say he was never invited back.
In both of these elitist institutions the wealthy and the influential find comfy quarters from where to spew rhetoric for which they will never take responsibility.

Comfort breeds cowardice and cowardice ends in a thousand deaths.
How many deaths can we already count in our culture and the rest of the West?

I extend an equal thanks to Mr Jewell.

You both present the Pearl of Great Price: Truth, Who Is.

I will pray for you, as I do for myself, that we may persevere to the end, by God’s Grace, ever fulfilling His will for our lives in redeeming the world to Himself.

Lenten blessings to you as you sacrifice in bringing about Regnum Christi.

”. . . atheism and collectivism on one college campus” long ago left the Yale campus – those sixties being a prime of the relativistic pump that now dominates so much. God of truth has had to go if relativism’s cafeteria of self-selected truth was to grow and become so dominant.

”The spirit of Munich is a sickness of the will of successful people, it is the daily condition of those who have given themselves up to the thirst after prosperity at any price, to material well-being as the chief goal” has the inimitable Solzhenitsyn noting that materialism gone rampant and astray makes for craven appeasement of evil – starting with appeasement of oneself in silencing the conscience. Solzhenitsyn learned his lessons one of the hardest ways, and how many of sound conscience now will find it steeled by new gulags and attempts to enforce appeasement of all but the conscientious, the productive and the faithful?
” . . . so as not to step over the threshold of hardship today — and tomorrow, you’ll see, it will all be all right. (But it will never be all right! The price of cowardice will only be evil; we shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.)“ And, he offers the call of the prophet to us. ‘Really live, or die’.

”I was as embarrassed at not having read any of Solzhenitsyn’s books as I was in not having read [Buckley’s] GAMAY“ My irritation is that such books were not even suggested reading in my parochial Catholic high school. I never heard about the Catholic William F. Buckley; or how communism had its fiery detractors in such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; nor that orthodox Catholic Christianity had a powerful voice in G.K.Chesterton. And I was made to read David Copperfield, and Great Expectations (the latter in title nearly an ironic mockery about my private-school education), but not the more formidably insightful and powerful Bleak House. And, a rarity, I not only put myself through college but paid my own way into Catholic high school to avoid the dreaded conformist public schools.

”Man’s laws are increasingly becoming incompatible with God’s laws in that they conflict with the concept of the free, uniquely individual person that is created in His image. . . . Evil lurks all around us.”I would guess that we simply must be thankful that God, in His mysterious ways, has kept us enough abreast of ideas that we can be aware of all this. But, what in the world can we do about it? I think that both ‘dead white males’ noted here, whom with the likes of Cardinal Dulles and Father Neuhaus we have too recently lost for earthly support, would recommend to stay faithful each our very selves, and wait for God to make His will better known to us for any action. Oh, that and prepare to exercise Second Amendment rights to defend against evil risen to ‘enough!’

The conclusion leaves but questions, of course, as I just asked:
“What time is it on your clock?
Some would contend that it’s not even your clock, that it belongs to the collective.
What do you or what will you do then?
Will you kid yourself or try to recapture the haze of 1937?
Will you sit and wait or get up and be a part of saving your freedoms before they’re gone and you don’t know where?”
Not to put too fine a point to it, but wouldn’t catechized fellows not merely support our own steadfast faith in steadfastly loving God, but find many better prepared at least to defend the lives of their own souls?

God be with you and all of us.