“Today, to the extent that the world is
de-Christianized and under new forms returns to the old idolatries of the
state, of race, and of blood, the authentic Christian is scarcely less isolated
than were the first Christians under the empire of the Caesars. Many of the early Christians did not protect
themselves any more than we do against the corruption which streamed in on them
from all sides. Habit prevents us from being sensitive to the contradictions
between the Cross and the world that is still so indomitable so many centuries
after the first Christians began to measure their strength against paganism.”
—French Nobel Literature laureate (and lifelong Catholic) Francois Mauriac
(1885-1970), The Son of Man, translated by Bernard Murchland
(1958)
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