The Sword and the Cross ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The Sword and the Cross ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Each of us, in the face of an atrocity, can only pray to the Madonna with the Sword-Pierced Heart, seeking the mercy of her Son for sinful humanity and seeking to share in her sorrow for those innocent victims of man’s inhumanity to man. And the Pope has cast his arms abroad for agony and loss, And called the kings of Christendom for swords about the Cross…. G.K. Chesterton (From “Lepanto”) These lines from Chesterton serve to highlight the cont…