Thought for the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
220 years later and the clergy are still doing their damndest to try…
ie: bishop of Charlotte, NC.
IF Napoleon repented before meeting his maker, his skull didn’t end up on the floors of hell with so many of the bishops.
Quite right Stephen and there is evidence that he did repent. I would state that Napoleon was not clearly an enemy of the Church, after all he restored the Faith in France after the depredations of the Revolution. He never joined the popular atheism of his youth, and Metternich, his great foe, noted that Napoleon was always sympathetic to sincere religious faith.
Napoleon is a good example of a waste of talent. Had he not been afflicted with his gross pan Europe territorial ambitions, he could have left the continent with an effective counter weight to later Prussian ambitions.