Saturday, March 23, 2024

I just remembered...Yeats is back.

"'Cabrini’ and the American Dream"

https://thedispatch.com/article/cabrini-and-the-american-dream/

"In his 1919 poem “The Second Coming,” William Butler Yeats describes our fledgling modernity as follows:

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold …

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

The life of Mother Francesca Cabrini, who is the subject of the new film Cabrini, provides a one-woman refutation of Yeats’ perspective."

~ Elizabeth Grace Matthew

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