#2,982

In their childish and vain attempt to attract the people, the modern clergy give socialist programs the function of being schemes for putting the Beatitudes into effect.
The trick behind it consists in reducing to a collective structure external to the individual an ethical behavior that, unless it is individual and internal, is nothing.
The modern clergy preach, in other words, that there is a social reform capable of wiping out the consequences of sin.
From which one can deduce the pointlessness of redemption through Christ.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 476

#2,977

The contemporary Church prefers to practice an electoral Catholicism.
It prefers the enthusiasm of great crowds to individual conversions.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 475

#2,936

The modern clergy, in order to save the institution, try to rid themselves of the message.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 469

#2,933

The Church used to educate; the pedagogy of the modern world only instructs.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 468

#2,913

The heresy that threatens the Church, in our time, is “worldliness.”

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 465

#2,843

The Church’s function is not to adapt Christianity to the world, nor even to adapt the world to Christianity; her function is to maintain a counterworld in the world.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 455

#2,734

Nothing is more disquieting to an intelligent unbeliever more than an intelligent Catholic.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 439

#2,697

Sincerity, unless it is in a sacramental confession, is a factor leading to demoralization.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 434

#2,674

The temptation for the churchman is to carry the waters of religion in the sieve of theology.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 431

#2,552

Rationalizing dogma, relaxing morality, simplifying the rite, do not make it easier for the unbeliever to approach [the Church], but rather [for the Church] to approach the unbeliever.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 410

#2,551

A cloud of incense is worth a thousand sermons.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 410

#2,505

To restore an old liturgical gesture in a new context can amount to heresy.
To receive communion standing today, for example, becomes a gesture of pride.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 403

#2,497

The separation of Church and State can suit the Church, but it is disastrous for the State because it delivers it over to pure Machiavellianism.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 402

#2,484

The growing difficulty of recruiting priests should embarrass humanity, not disquiet the Church.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 400

#2,446

The evolution of Christian dogma is less evident than the evolution of Christian theology.
We Catholics with little theology believe, in the end, the same thing as the first slave who converted in Ephesus or Corinth.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 394

#2,442

That the history of the Church contains sinister chapters and idiotic chapters is obvious, but a manly Catholicism should not make its contrite confession by exalting the modern world.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 393

#2,394

More than a breeze of betrayal, there howls around the modern clergy a hurricane of stupidity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 387

#2,272

Without canon law the Church would not have had her admirable institutional presence in history.
But the vices of Catholic theology stem from its propensity to treat theological problems with the mentality of a canon lawyer.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 369

#2,226

Let the priest leave stupid occupations to the stupid, for he is not responsible for doubtful progress, but for inexorable agony.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 361

#2,178

The Church in recent times has not known how to distinguish between the new truths that call for the rebuilding of the theological structure and the new errors that aim at its demolition.
New Testament criticism, for example, and the “biographies” of Jesus.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 354