Saul Alinsky & Lucifer

Remember that Saul? He dedicated his "Rules for Radicals" this way: “Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer".

Political gaffes

A gaffe in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

Michael Novak

Michael Novak writes,

"To my knowledge, there is only one point at which, in all conscience, I hold a view at variance with that of the teaching authority of the church: the condemnation of artificial contraceptives." (Confession of a Catholic, p. 118)

Card Ratzinger

Of Italy, he comments with that same seriousness: "political systems collapse, and then nothing really changes".

Garry Wills

Professor Garry Wills. A 1957 graduate of the midwestern Jesuit school, St. Louis College, Professor Wills has been littering the American publishing scene with half-cooked opinions for several decades. He tells us that "the Gospels are not a historical record". (Cf. 1 Corinthians 15 on this theory). He refers to the trial of Jesus before the Sanhedrin as "fictive". What he probably means (the fuzziness of his prose makes it difficult to determine) is that the trial was a kangaroo court, with no standing in Jewish law: a "trial" that would be condemned by Jews.

Arrupe

Father Pedro Arrupe, warned his Jesuit fathers against a "too rigid concept of truth where personal opinions are sometimes confused with Divine Revelation".

Huxley

("Atheism is, logically speaking, as absurd as polytheism")