"I think I'm in love with this writer."
Me too!
I loved this part "The [Catholics] have had their moral and doctrinal sensitivities blunted by Vatican II, yet there are signs that even Catholics indoctrinated by Justice ’n’ Peace guff are on the turn."
He really gets the Catholics. I knew something was happening when I went to Mass two weeks before election and the priest gave a homily all against abortion, embryo research, euthanasia, he was practically pounding on the lectern saying "THIS IS MURDER!" and all in a quite pointed political context (no endorsement given, of course). I sincerely have never seen anything quite like that in a Catholic Church, and I've seen this man say Mass before, it was amazing. I was thinking "The revolution must have begun."
Thank the Good Lord we won this round, but it's gonna be a slog, we must not stand down, but keep fighting the forces of evil and socialism wherever they are found.
the élite leaped to the egotistic, patronising conclusion that the common people had come swarming out, like extras in an Eisenstein film, to implement the revolution that their betters had devised for them.
That's really what it was. And they are just so infuriated that we somehow rebelled against our role in their little drama.