Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

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

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

The impertinent attempt to justify “the ways of God to man” transforms God into a frustrated schoolmaster who invents educational games that...

The modern theologian’s pirouettes have not gained him one conversion more, nor one apostasy less. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección ...

For the man who believes in Providence the notion of providence explains nothing, since he believes that everything depends on it. Escolios ...

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

We should not believe in the theologian’s God except when He resembles the God called on in distress. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selecci...

The heart does not rebel against the will of God, but against the “reasons” they dare attribute to it. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selecc...

Modern theologies tend to be the contortions of a theologian who is trying to avoid admitting his unbelief to himself. Escolios a un Texto I...

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

When the theologian explains the reason for some act of God, the listener wavers between indignation and laughter. Escolios a un Texto Implí...

Modernism ingeniously finds a way not to present its theology directly, but rather through profane notions that imply it. It avoids announc...

At the thought of the current Church (clergy, liturgy, theology), an old Catholic first becomes indignant, then astonished, and finally he j...

The theologian corrupts theology by wanting to turn it into a science. By looking for rules for grace. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selec...

The Catholic theologian fulfills his duty only by disrespecting the letter of the vespers and the spirit of the day. Escolios a un Texto Imp...

More than one presumed “theological problem” comes only from the lack of respect with which God treats our prejudices. Escolios a un Texto I...

The religious problem grows worse each day because the faithful are not theologians and the theologians are not faithful. Escolios a un Text...

The modern theologian longs to transform Christian doctrine into a simple ideology of community behavior. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Sel...

So great is the distance between God and human intelligence that only an infantile theology is not puerile. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: S...

To lighten the load of the Christian ship foundering in modern waters, liberal theology yesterday jettisoned the divinity of Christ, and rad...