Peggy Noonan Part II

I have a degree in English. I've studied poetry, but never loved it. I was too impatient, it was too puzzling. Assuming my friend would feel similarly, I recall telling him that I didn't read poetry and I didn't really see that it was worth my time. He replied by saying it was the only thing worth reading. A simple yet powerful rejoinder. And it got me to thinking. Poetry is involved in providing a vision, where prose can only offer analysis. It changed my perspective. Peggy Noonan's article described poetically St. Joseph Cupertino as the best candidate for Patron Saint of the Internet because "he flew through the air, lifted by truth." That is the intention of this site (and has something to do with its name), to provide a space where faith can live, when the analyses of the world have dismissed it. She continues, "Because no establishment could keep him down. Because he empowered common people. Because they in fact saw his power before the elites of the time did." There will always be systems that seek to do away with the inviolable sanctity of the person. This site says let no man be a gatekeeper to the narrow gate of salvation. We are in a world today where no assumptions about the possibility of attaining truth are legitimate in the eyes of the elite, but as tombot has eloquently written, we do in fact seek the truth. Peggy Noonan honors that search consistently, and it is a lifting of a weight, as if one might fly.