On the futility of modern bureaucratic states
It troubles me that Catholic leaders constantly praise democracy in the face of the steady deterioration of that form of government in the contemporary West.
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It troubles me that Catholic leaders constantly praise democracy in the face of the steady deterioration of that form of government in the contemporary West.
Every bishop should set everything else aside to deliberately foster a muscular Catholicism which presents a united front of faith, morals, and mercy.
God’s holiness is to us something “other”, something separate, and something almost terrible in its intensity when we get close to it.
“Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man….”
I have heard recently from several dedicated Catholics who feel a temptation to give up or despair, because so much of the news in the Church today is bad.