Pace e Bene – 19 January 2025

“In a word, the end of our civilized society is quite literally up to us and our immediate descendants, if any. It is up to us to decide whether we are going to give in to hatred, terror and blind love of power for its own sake, and thus plunge the world into the abyss, or whether, restraining our savagery, we can patiently, and humanely work together for interests which transcend the limits of any national or ideological community.”—Thomas Merton, Peace in the Post-Christian Era, p. 25