The poet's perspective

By Phil Lawler ( bio - articles - email ) | Nov 18, 2004

"The vast majority of bishops are in the center, and the center is holding," says Cardinal McCarrick

William Butler Yeats might disagree:

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.