Butter and Guns

Our friend Father George Rutler, pastor of the Church of Our Savior nearby, notes   in his March 4th column  for his parish website that Catholics must recognize that “elements of our own government have declared war on the Church, and persecution both subtle and blatant has gone domestic,” and laments the number of people who don’t see this.

He gets off some nice lines in the short meditation, one in particular. He notes that few people listened when in the 1930s Churchill made his now obviously prescient warnings about England’s enemies, and then says:

The Allies were unprepared when Churchill spoke in 1938 because people wanted butter not guns, but found soon enough that butter was being rationed, and guns were pointing at them.