“If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland.” IfsWellsHandsWould BeUsedFightingChurchDeserveHolinessAcceptableFatherland Book:Autobiography of Giuseppe Garibaldi: Supplement Source: Autobiography of Giuseppe Garibaldi: Supplement
“Current Catholic worship often ignores the essential connection between truth and beauty, body and soul, at the center of the Catholic worldview. The Church requires that we be faithful, but must we also be deaf, dumb, and blind? I deserve to suffer for my sins, but must so much of that punishment take place in church?” SoulBodySufferingChurchSinEssentialsWorshipDeserveConnectionsCatholicBlindCurrentsPunishmentDumbFaithfulDeafWorldviewBeing FaithfulTruth And Beauty Author:Dana Gioia
“In South America euphemism appears to be the grisly preserve of violent power. 'Liberty' was the name of the biggest prison in Uruguay under the military dictatorship, while in Chile one of the concentration camps was called 'Dignity.' It was the self-styled 'Peace and Justice' paramilitary group in Chiapas [Mexico] that in 1997 shot 45 peasants in the back, nearly all of them women and children, as they prayed in a church. What have the souls of the south done over the past few decades to deserve quite so much liberty and dignity and peace and justice?” ChildrenSoulSelfDoneAmericaPastNamesLanguageChurchJusticeLibertyViolenceGroupsMilitaryShotsDeserveDignityPrisonSouthDecadesViolentOppressionPreservesConcentrationCampsMexicoDictatorshipPeasantsOver The PastPeace And JusticeChileSouth AmericaConcentration CampEuphemism Author:Isabel Fonseca
“Mr. Mum's Rudesheimer And the church of St. Geryon Are the two things alone That deserve to be known In the body-and-soul-stinking town of Cologne.” TwoSoulBodyChurchKnownDeserveTownsTwo ThingsMumCologne Book:On the Constitution of the Church and State Source: On the Constitution of the Church and State
“No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.” PoliticsChurchDeserveContemptZeitgeist Author:Robert Bork