Where have the Catholic leaders gone, long time passing? Sound familiar? It should. I’ve borrowed and adapted it from an old ballad by Peter, Paul and Mary, folk singers who had several hits in the 1960s.
The lyric came to me as I was recently reading a wonderful book on the life of the great Polish king and warrior Jan Sobieski. I highly recommend it: he was the man most responsible for saving Europe at the gates of Vienna from the hordes of the Ottoman Empire. If the Christian West had lost in that confrontation, we might today be under Islamic control, living at best under a form of sharia law.
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