The Irony of Goodness, by David Warren

It will be observed, while glancing through the Catholic Internet, on any day in Lent, or any other day, that the majority of items have a political taint. I, at least, observe this, because I am myself politically tainted, and notice the same in writers to the left and right of me.

There are moments when I find this strange. In particular, it is in many of those moments when I am consulting the religious literature of the past. I have come to associate politics with modernity, in the sense that I don’t even detect it in most writings prior to the Protestant revolt, or “Reformation.” …