America, Be Not Afraid

BY The Editors

December 14-20, 2008 Issue | Posted 12/8/08 at 8:02 AM

“For religious believers, our times offer a daunting yet exhilarating challenge,” said Pope John Paul II in the year 2000 at the U.S. National Prayer Breakfast. “I would go so far as to say that their task is to save democracy from self-destruction.”

They were bracing, surprising words.

But they precisely name the task our generation of Catholics is called to.