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*Image: The Philosopher Anaxagoras by Giovanni Battista Langetti (attributed), c. 1660 [Philadelphia Museum of Art]. Here the philosopher is shown wearing an animal skin robe and measuring the heavens on a celestial globe.
By David Warren, The Catholic Thing, Jan. 12, 2024
David Warren is a former editor of the Idler magazine and columnist in Canadian newspapers. He has extensive experience in the Near and Far East. ..
My sense is that we are passing through a difficult time in the Church (for agnosticism is always difficult), and that many Catholics, especially in the Western countries of traditional Christendom, are discouraged.
I do not present this as a criticism of the pope, or of any of the “Princes of the Church,” for my sense is that they are as confused as we are, and given to miscalculation. If one is Catholic, he is obliged to pray for them; even to pray for their conversion.
The odd temper tantrum might be forgivable, provided, perhaps, that one prays when he recovers his peace of mind; but this is to make a very human calculation. …
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