Yes, last year on Memorial Day, just after announcing what on White House paper the month of June will be dedicated to for four years of this administration — and this, in the nation for which these Memorialized American soldiers gave their lives — our president placed a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier. The word “cemetery” is derived from a Greek word meaning “place of sleep.” I don’t think the war heroes buried in Arlington National or any other cemetery are sleeping well with the disgraceful affront to the month of June. This year the vice-president did the honors at Arlington because Mr. Obama is on vacation. He was scheduled to visit the Lincoln Cemetery in Elmwood, Illinois, on the national holiday.
CatholicOnline has an inspiring meditation from the editor here on the devotion to the Sacred Heart, which includes the following provocative quote from Pope John Paul II given in an address to the American bishops in 1978 two months before he was elected Pope:
“We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide circles of the American society or wide circles of the Christian community realize this fully. We are now facing the final … confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel and the anti-Gospel. This confrontation lies within the plans of divine providence. It is a trial which the whole Church must take up.”
