Every week or so, I wander by Monte Solberg's blog, just to see if he's updated. The MPs often have a hard time keeping their sites up to date, seeing as they obviously have other things to do. Monte did a great post on April 10th. Read the whole thing, but here's the part that caught me.

Lately in the news we see what a difference it makes to our own outcomes and the impact on others depending on whether we build our lives on those eternal first things.Pope John Paul II lived a life of sacrifice, courage, charity and holiness. That is why he was able to help end the Soviet Union, build bridges to other faiths and, as his health deteriorated, help the world see age and illness through a new lens. The lens of dignity.The other big headlines were about what happens when we focus on just ourselves. They were about Sponsorship. Sponsorship is what happens when we sneer at young idealists, and especially old idealists like Pope John Paul.

God knows how poor I am at heeding my own advice. He knows how chastened I am by my own 4 a.m. reflections, but I still have the gall to ask, who would you rather be like: Jean or John? Clearly it's better to attempt to be John and to fall miserably short then to attempt to be Jean and be wildly successful.

Sponsorship is shaking us by our lapels, but will we snap out of our reverie? Do we have enough self respect to say that we will wipe out corruption and to punish all those who participated directly or by failing to blow the whistle?

I guess it depends on who you are doing this for.