David Given Schwarm

The world might have expected the Son of God to be born in an inn; a stable would certainly be the last place where one would look for him. The less is: divinity is always where you least expect to find it. So the Son of God made man is invited to enter his own…

But when finally the scrolls of history are complete, down to the last word of time, the saddest line of all will be: “There was no room in the inn.” The inn was the gathering place of public opinion, the focal point of the world’s moods, the rendezvous of the worldly, and the rallying place…

Judge the Catholic Church, not those who barely live by its spirit but by the example of those closest to it.

A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven–not excused or sublimated.