Card George

In his recent book, The Difference God Makes, Cardinal Francis George wrote that a principal problem for liberal Catholics is their willingness to become chaplains to the status quo.

Courageously following the crowd

We moderns have a nearly infinite capacity to portray ourselves as romantic heroes because we so courageously follow the crowd.

Kelly on Brown

Kelly, too, decided to write for the non-specialist. He understood that ours is not a religion of the professors. Kelly asserted that what Brown called "science" was no more than unprovable theorizing, perhaps akin to sophisticated science fiction.

GKC on modernism

The real objection to modernism is simply that it is a form of snobbishness. It is an attempt to crush a rational opponent not by reason, but by some mystery of superiority, by hinting that one is specially up to date or particularly "in the know." To flaunt the fact that we have had all the last books from Germany is simply vulgar; like flaunting the fact that we have had all the last bonnets from Paris. To introduce into philosophical discussions a sneer at a creed's antiquity is like introducing a sneer at a lady's age. It is caddish because it is irrelevant. The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion. (All Things Considered, 1908)

Statistics

statistics show that 50% of statistics are made up.

Hazlitt on Malthus

William Hazlitt, the humanist essayist, accused Malthus of ‘starving the children of the poor to feed the horses of the rich’.

Anglicanism

I remember that the late Fr. Neuhaus said: The Anglican Church exists to make irony redundant.

Buddhism

Buddhism - spiritual auto-eroticism. [Card. Ratzinger]

Buddhism

Buddhism - spiritual auto-eroticism. [Card. Ratzinger]