Happily, the head of the Church remains Christ. The occupant of the Papal throne is always just a stand-in. As Hilaire Belloc put it, "the Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine — but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight."
Monday, March 09, 2015
Hmm …
… Everything That Rises - G.K. Chesterton on Pope Francis (with an Assist from Garry Wills). (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Happily, the head of the Church remains Christ. The occupant of the Papal throne is always just a stand-in. As Hilaire Belloc put it, "the Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine — but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight."
Happily, the head of the Church remains Christ. The occupant of the Papal throne is always just a stand-in. As Hilaire Belloc put it, "the Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine — but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight."
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