*"Holiness," they say - "if only there were more holiness, everything would be simple!"  They talk about sanctity the way other talk about oil.  That's their style, naive and cunning.  As if it were understood that holiness would leave everything the way it is.

How well-ordered and glorious the Church was in the days when popes and cardinals waged war and practiced various other vices!  Morality might receive a few setbacks but at least doctrine was never breached.  That proved God was somehow present in it.  When I was a boy apologetics I knew how to make use of anything.  How stupid!  The time soon came when people could perceive that this doctrinal fortress was the symptom of dead minds that were only interested in control.  The marvel was that the Word managed to make its way underneath all this, like a spring that is both protected and impeded by a large rock.
-Jean Sulivan