Churchian

Few things are more ludicrous than someone calling others Churchians while citing and basing one’s faith and theology on papal encyclicals and Canon Law. Clearly, with such Christians, one does not need enemies. Not necessary to mention that the one making this claim is … sex-obsessed. Yes, no surprise here at all. After all, a “sex positive” outlook goes hand in hand with being vulgar, shallow, tacky.

Don Colacho knew:

So great is the distance between God and human intelligence that only an infantile theology is not puerile.

The evolution of Christian dogma is less evident than the evolution of Christian theology.
We Catholics with little theology believe, in the end, the same thing as the first slave who converted in Ephesus or Corinth.

Religion is the only serious thing, but one need not take seriously every declaration of homo religiosus.

The religious sensibility oppressed by the Church takes refuge in strange catacombs.

Without canon law the Church would not have had her admirable institutional presence in history.
But the vices of Catholic theology stem from its propensity to treat theological problems with the mentality of a canon lawyer.

The Catholic apologist rarely distinguishes between what must be rejected with respect and what must be crushed with contempt.

The contemporary Catholic looks upon “scientific ideas” with a stupid reverence.

A Catholic should simplify his life and complicate his thought.

That the history of the Church contains sinister chapters and idiotic chapters is obvious, but a manly Catholicism should not make its contrite confession by exalting the modern world.