On the Credibility of the Catholic Church
… Doubt has taken hold of Western thought
… have forgotten what unites them as one people
… At the foundation of a civilization, there can only be one reality that surpasses it
… “The nature of a civilization is what gathers around a religion
… Her sole goal is to make possible the encounter of men with the person of Jesus
… Christian civilization is born of this encounter. Beauty and culture are its fruits
… She must stop thinking of herself as a substitute for humanism or ecology
… What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too
… it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful
… Her only legitimacy is her consistency in her continuity
… commissars of the ideology of the moment rather than guardians of the perennial tradition