QUOTATION: Excessive Self-Criticism by Catholics

The excesses of modern "self-criticism" often serve only the interests of our bitter enemies.

--Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty, Memoirs, 1974

QUOTATION: America

Catholics need to wake up from the illusion that the America we now live in – not the America of our nostalgia or imagination or best ideals, but the real America we live in here and now – is somehow friendly to our faith. What we’re watching emerge in this country is a new kind of paganism, an atheism with air-conditioning and digital TV. And it is neither tolerant nor morally neutral.

--Archbishop Charles J. Chaput

QUOTATION: Accusations Against the Church

When people impute special vices to the Christian Church, they seem entirely to forget that the world (which is the only other thing there is) has these vices much more. The Church has been cruel; but the world has been much more cruel. The Church has plotted; but the world has plotted much more. The Church has been superstitious; but it has never been so superstitious as the world is when left to itself.

--G.K. Chesterton, All Things Considered