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Even where the Faith is preserved men pursue wealth and power inordinately. Where the Faith is lost they pursue nothing else.
Survivals and New Arrivals: The Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church (1929)
All teaching is dogmatic. Dogma, indeed, means only "a thing taught," and teaching not dogmatic would cease to be teaching and would become discussion and doubt.
Survivals and New Arrivals: The Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church (1929)
The object of a religion or a philosophy is not to make men wealthy or powerful, but to make them, in the last issue, happy: that is, to fulfil their being.
Survivals and New Arrivals: The Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church (1929)
For the line of cleavage does not fall between the various groups, Catholic, Agnostic, Evangelical, or what not, but between the Catholic Church and all else. She is unique, and at issue with the world.
Survivals and New Arrivals: The Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church (1929)
It is not insignificant that the Church, in the rare places and times when she had power to do so, did not compel the mind. During all that intense intellectual life of the thirteenth century instruction was by choice: endowed—so that the poorest could reach the highest inspiration, but at the choice of the individual or family will, to be taken or left.
Survivals and New Arrivals: The Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church (1929)