After reading Maureen Dowd’s satire, “Sarah’s secret diary” in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (7/9/09), which I found to be ugly, caustic and humorless with a tinge of jealousy, I spent some time reading Dominican Fr. Walter Farrell’s “Companion to the Summa” Vol. IV, which references St. Thomas Aquinas’ “Summa Theologica.”
I came across the following which I think is apropos. During Christ’s public life, “Men were not anxious to give up the things that the perfection of the Lawgiver and His law demanded. Something of this crops up in the daily life of every age when the pure are mocked by the impure, the just by the unjust, the truthful by liars, the merciful by the pitiless, the wise by the stupid, the industrious by the lazy, not that those things are not valued; rather, because the recognition of them in others constitutes a stinging and constant rebuke”
Maureen needs to do some soul searching. We all do.
E. Franzen
Chesterfield