“The Church should adapt itself to the manners of the time, since it seems only too clear that the manners of the time adapt themselves less and less to the Church.” ChurchMannersChanging TimesClochemerle Book:Clochemerle-les-Bains [English language] Source: Clochemerle-les-Bains [English language]
“It was true that the elders found everything changing all about them with a precipitation which was leaving them stripped of authority. The girls (kids they remembered no bigger than that) suddenly flowered and married. The lads returned from their military service with blasé airs and a new vocabulary. A horde of new brats was born, making their disprespectful uproar in Clochemerle.” Changing Times Book:Clochemerle-Babylon Source: Clochemerle-Babylon