In 1571, the chivalrous Don Juan of Austria led Pope St. Pius V’s hastily gathered defense forces in an epic sea battle at Lepanto against the invading Ottoman Empire and won a history-changing victory. The Ottomans, with their bloodlust, greed, state-run slavery, forced conversions and knuckle-dragging obscurantism, were run out of town and set on a slow spiral down into the sink of history. If, by some unhappy turn of events, an Ottoman-like empire should threaten the world again sometime in the next thirty years, I’d like to nominate my second son, Jack, to lead the resistance…
Read more about Don Jack of Ohio and the Attempting-to-be-Holy League here!
What about the modern day catharists then?
Good idea! Then again, they’re kind of their own worst enemies, aren’t they?
They sure are!
Deepest sympathy to you and your family on the passing of your father; he sounds like he was quite a guy. He’ll be at Jack’s First Communion in a special way.
He’s in my prayers.