“Humanity is not like a fence of separate poles, strung together thanks to political and economic barbed wire or red tape; rather it is like a giant tree which has been growing for centuries.  Its leaves fall off now and then, but they are replaced by others, while the roots become deeper, and one mysterious energy or sap continues to flow, uniting the trunk and branches.”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Footprints in a Darkened Forest)