Bishops, unworthy

Guy [of Pomposa] finally handed off the administrative elements of his position to concentrate on spiritual direction. He periodically retreated to a hermitage near Ferrara to spend his days in prayer and fasting. Near the end of his life he was unjustly persecuted for personal reasons by archbishop Heribert of Ravenna.

The Church

The Church is more a hospital for sinners than a hotel for saints

Liberation theology

liberation theology is not originally a "grass-roots" movement among the poor. Instead, Ratzinger called it a creation of Western intellectuals and a form of "cultural imperialism" in reaction to the demise or near-demise of the "Marxist myth" in the West.

Schopenhauer on journalism

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to the dramatic art; for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible. Thus it is that all journalists are, in the very nature of their calling, alarmists; and this is their way of giving interest to what they write. Herein they are like little dogs; if anything stirs, they immediately set up a shrill bark.

Arthur Schopenhauer, On Some Forms of Literature (1851)

Rowan Williams

A … woolly-minded, wordy man of inconsistent and incoherent views presiding over a miserably divided church”.

Anglican rite

All Archbishops of Canterbury fail, quite simply because the Church of England isn’t a Church at all, it’s a theme park: you wander about and choose the rides you want to go on.

Bureaucracies

For bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.