Is it always Or? Is it never And? ~ Stephen Sondheim, "Moments in the Woods," from Into the Woods Fr Robert Barron weighs in today against "the worst kind of exaggerated hoo-hah" in politics and religion, rejecting the imbalanced reactions on both sides to the choice of Paul Ryan as Republican vice-presidential candidate and reminding Ryan---and all of us---that we are not a Church of one-sided extremists. There are checks and balances built into Catholic social morality, and juggling the … [Read more...]