![]() Flynn A few weeks ago, a friend, discouraged by the news of the world, asked me whether The Pillar could have a “good-news-only” week sometime. The Tuesday Pillar Post: They might be saints. On the way from the airport into New Orleans, you saw refrigerators outside homes, too you wound up having to discard it if you didn’t get a chance to empty your freezer before the storm hit. Bags and bags and bags of garbage that has not been picked up, but mercifully not the first Ida-round of once-frozen meat. Kathryn Jean Lopez Mattresses waiting for sanitation pickup. In storm-damaged Louisiana, there is not victimhood, but resilience and gratitude. Yet San Marino has just legalized abortion, not through a political trick but through a public referendum. This same population is also 91% Catholic. Based on GDP per capita, San Marino is one of the wealthiest nations in the world. Its population of just under 35,000 inhabits an area of 24 square miles. Vulcan 1.75mm Bat Grips/Optic Burst Jeff Mirus If you are looking for a microcosm of the modern West, try San Marino: The tiny, land-locked nation just west of the port city of Rimini on the Adriatic Sea. ![]()
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