When the importance of loving your enemies, the stringent principles of just war doctrine, or the imprudence of capital punishment is mentioned, conservatives attack. When the need to follow natural law and to respect the sacredness of human life from conception to natural death is mentioned, liberals attack. But when fornication is mentioned as an intrinsic evil that attacks marriage and the family and demands an abortion culture, both often attack, usually with silence.

The true and the good are not wrapped up in an ideology. They are written on every human heart, but obscured by sin. Only with grace can the fog of woundedness and pride be cleared in order to see.

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” (Mt 5:8)