"We have many good hopes of [winning out]. In the first place, we kept our oaths made to the gods, but the other side have perjured themselves and broken their oaths... That being the case, it is natural that the gods should not favor our enemies, and should fight on our side. Whenever they want, the gods are able to make the strong weak, and to save the weak that are in terrible danger.

"...Remember the dangers our ancestors were in, so that you may realize how it befits you to be brave, and how the gods' help preserved the brave in their worst troubles...

"The greatest of all memorials [to our ancestors] is the freedom of the states in which you were born and bred, for you call no man master, and only worship the gods.

"...[our enemies] expected that we should perish from want of direction and order... they will see ten thousand [Trumps] instead of one."

From Xenophon's Anabasis, Book 3, Chapter 2

Even when the worst happens in life, we can still win. Xenophon was barely a kid, and he and the Greeks managed to get home safely despite being chased by the most powerful empire in their world, and being opposed by everyone in their way as they traveled through unknown territory.

They were pagans, but we are blessed enough to know the true God; so Xenophon's reasoning is twice as applicable to us.

You don't get a prominent and self-righteous "bad Catholic" like Nancy Pelosi without that person having some kind of deep resentment in her past. (Otherwise, they just leave the Catholic Church and live life, or they stay in the Church and try to follow the rules.)

Well, now we know. Her dad was a crooked mayor who actually did hang out with the Mafia, so she can't really enjoy being Italian-American in heritage. Her brother hung out with gang rapists of young girls, and probably was one himself; and there was young Nancy in the house. And "Nancy" looks like a typical Ann-variant, but it's really a disguised version of her mother's name, Annunziata (Annunciation - a Mary name for kids born on March 25).

So yeah, of course she comes out with crazy things, like how St. Joseph, protector of the Christ Child, totally would approve of abortion, or how a handout from the Sixties totally explains the leftist position of early Christian Church Fathers.

She resents her family for being criminals. She resents her mother for going along with it. She resents her church for not protecting her or solving anything sufficiently. She probably hates all nuns, monks, friars, priests, bishops, and popes. And everybody else, too, right down to the janitors at work.

But she also didn't have the gumption to either leave, or to blow the whistle on her family. She is shady or a criminal too, and all her younger relatives have also been dragged into her family's terrible legacy. So she hates herself, and she hates anyone who is happy with life.

It's very sad. She's gone so far, but it's all tainted by "help" and "favors;" yet she doesn't have the ability to let go of power, either. And there's also no Godfather movie about a daughter trying to go legit.