Losing faith

"When we’re kids we play cops and robbers, and watch cartoons about evil criminals being stopped by virtuous crime fighters. Then when we mature we learn that all the most evil people are operating within the laws of our nation, and nobody ever sends them to jail." Caitlin Johnstone on X

"Don’t dismiss the once-a-year mob: they embody our national religion.
Churches exist as much for those who don’t go as for those who do, and that is part of their beauty. Those who pack pews at Midnight Mass express deeply embedded pieties that are separate from devout Christian faith."
AN Wilson, Friday December 22 2023, The Times

"If you have a sloppy religion, you get a sloppy atheism." Mgr Ronald Knox

"When a Catholic does not believe in God he knows exactly what God it is he does not believe in." Anonymous