Those who think that the subject of heresy may be neglected because it sounds to them old-fashion are thinking in words instead of ideas. Belloc was not wrong when he declaimed, “Europe is the faith and the faith is Europe.” Leave it out of the equation and the Civilization of the West makes no sense. If it didn’t happen, if God did not come down among us, and if there were no martyrs to testify to the fact, then it hardly matters what we think, does it? Without the note of “ineradicable positivity,” quoting an expressive phrase from Joseph Ratzinger’s landmark text Introduction to Christianity, then there is no music to be played, no notes to be heard. And so, like the great French theologian, Jean Danielou, I, too, would take my stand, “loving best of all that Church mud-splashed from history.” If Stones Could Speak https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/if-stones-could-speak utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=novashare
