Be a part of the hottest new game show in the blogosphere. NAME THAT CATHOLIC? There are no parting gifts, no models, no anything. It’s just you guessing which Catholic said this quote? (Hint: the person who said this is dead):
The issue was between two forces. On the one hand was the instinct which we all have within us, that Europe is Catholic, must live as Catholic, or must die; that in the anarchic religious rebellion was peril of death to our art, our culture, to that from which they proceed, our religious vision. On the other had arisen an intense, fierce, increasing hatred against the Mass, the Blessed Sacrament, the whole transcendental scheme; a hatred such that all who felt it were in spite of a myriad differences, in common alliance. That hatred fed upon an original popular indignation against the corruption of the clergy, and especially against their financial claims. But that hatred was far older than any such late medieval trouble; it was as old as the presence of the Catholic Church in this world.
So go ahead. Name that Catholic!
Answer: It’s Belloc! Congrats to those who got it right.
November 13, 2009 at 7:17 pm
GKC
November 13, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Hilaire Belloc
November 13, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Pope Benedict the XVI, while he was still a cardinal. This probably comes from a dialogue that he had with a prime minister, most likely the prime minister of Italy. Our Holy Father has a distinctive writing style that just cannot be mistaken. He loves discussing the apparently contradictory forces sculpting our world, often weighing in and arguing seemingly in favor of both sides of an issue before proposing an entirely different scheme altogether.
November 13, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Pius XII
November 13, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Geoffrey – but in this case, Matthew has said that the above quote is from a Catholic who has passed on.
My bet's on Bishop Fulton Sheen.
November 13, 2009 at 8:13 pm
I believe Anonymous has it pegged. It's Belloc
November 13, 2009 at 8:18 pm
hmmm… not Ted Kennedy.
I'm stumped.
November 13, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Gotta be Belloc, it rages with his fire and incisiveness
November 13, 2009 at 8:30 pm
My first thought was Chesterton.
November 13, 2009 at 8:38 pm
My money is on Belloc
November 13, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Sounds like Belloc to me.
~Francesca Pio
November 13, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Yeah, another vote for Belloc
November 13, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Belloc. The Catholic heritage of Europe was a major theme of his.
–Dale Price
November 13, 2009 at 10:22 pm
It's Belloc.
Maria (Portugal)
November 13, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Matthew has authorized me to say how smart all you are. Belloc it is.
November 14, 2009 at 12:14 am
My favorite Belloc quote: "That Mohammedan culture happens to have fallen back in material applications; there is no reason whatever why it should not learn its new lesson and become our equal in all those temporal things which now alone give us our superiority over it — whereas in Faith we have fallen inferior to it."
– "The Great Heresies".
Wise, wise WISE man. And now it has come to fruition.
November 14, 2009 at 1:56 am
Belloc, in his book "How The Reformation Happened," reprinted by Tan Books. Thank the Lord that company was saved from bankruptcy at least three times in the last twelve years. They're a great source of reprints.
November 14, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Hillaire Belloc wouold also be my guess.
November 14, 2009 at 3:25 pm
This was from Hilaire Belloc's Book called "How the Reformation Happened."
November 15, 2009 at 3:05 am
Hilaire Belloc.