There is an old French saying, “The more things change, the more
things stay the same.” This might be said for the tough
divisions that the Catholic community is feeling these days with
other Christians, with non-Christians, and even among themselves
over such issues of religious liberty, same-sex marriage, voting
for a particular political party, and even the state of being a
nun. Sometimes it helps to take a moment to look back at history
and realize that there are battles that American society keeps
fighting time and again, just with different players. Ben Sales,
in a May 24 analysis piece “Obamas’s same-sex marriage nod
echoes historic Catholic-Jewish debate,” for the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, looked back at a time in the early 1960s
during the very hot debate on prayer in public schools. The
Jewish community was divided among itself, and it was very
divided with the Catholic and Protestant communities on this
issue. Fascinatingly enough, it was a Catholic publication,
Commonweal, that provided the tippi