Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Politics and redemption

Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes, not divine, but demonic. - Pope Benedict XVI, Truth and Tolerance; p. 116.

Hat tip: Kyle-Anne Shiver.

The Right People for the Wrong Crowd

Luke 15 begins: 1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him.  2 And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbl...