Today’s One-Liner (#173)

In some radical circles the vehemence of one’s feelings against the hierarchy is taken as an index of genuine Christianity.   –James Hitchcock, The Decline and Fall of Radical Catholicism, 1971

Today’s One-Liner (#152)

The institutional Church is the most economical and efficient means by which the Christian reality can be made accessible, at least minimally, to masses of people.  –James Hitchcock, The Decline and Fall of Radical Catholicism,…

Today’s One-Liner (#143)

Rigid reactionaries and rigid innovators…have constantly fed on each other, each serving as a bogey which gives the other a certain credibility. –James Hitchcock, The Decline and Fall of Radical Catholicism, 1972

Recent Reading

Sohrab  Ahmari, The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos Thomas à  Kempis, The Imitation of Christ Wendell Berry, Blessed are the Peacemakers: Christ’s Teachings of Love, Compassion, and Forgiveness…