Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

In their childish and vain attempt to attract the people, the modern clergy give socialist programs the function of being schemes for puttin...

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

The modern clergy, in order to save the institution, try to rid themselves of the message. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 469

The Church used to educate; the pedagogy of the modern world only instructs. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 468

The heresy that threatens the Church, in our time, is “worldliness.” Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 465

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 ...

Nothing is more disquieting to an intelligent unbeliever more than an intelligent Catholic. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 43...

Sincerity, unless it is in a sacramental confession, is a factor leading to demoralization. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 43...

The temptation for the churchman is to carry the waters of religion in the sieve of theology. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. ...

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

A cloud of incense is worth a thousand sermons. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 410

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

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

The growing difficulty of recruiting priests should embarrass humanity, not disquiet the Church. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , ...

The evolution of Christian dogma is less evident than the evolution of Christian theology. We Catholics with little theology believe, in the...

That the history of the Church contains sinister chapters and idiotic chapters is obvious, but a manly Catholicism should not make its contr...

More than a breeze of betrayal, there howls around the modern clergy a hurricane of stupidity. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p....

Without canon law the Church would not have had her admirable institutional presence in history. But the vices of Catholic theology stem fro...

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

The Church in recent times has not known how to distinguish between the new truths that call for the rebuilding of the theological structure...