"History is a wonderful thing, if only it was true"
-Tolstoy

Saturday, April 03, 2010

More on the Church

It all comes to a head during "Holy Week:

Peggy Noonan: The Catholic Church's Catastrophe - WSJ.com:

"There is an interesting and very modern thing that often happens when individuals join and rise within mighty and venerable institutions. They come to think of the institution as invulnerable—to think that there is nothing they can do to really damage it, that the big, strong, proud establishment they're part of can take any amount of abuse, that it doesn't require from its members an attitude of protectiveness because it's so strong, and has lasted so long."

and

"It is damage that will last at least a generation. It is an actual catastrophe, a rolling catastrophe that became public first in the United States, now in Europe. It has lowered the standing, reputation and authority of the church. This will have implications down the road."

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