The Secular Experiment

"[T]here is something unique in our modern “secular,” Western culture, in that it is the site of the only large-scale attempt in human history at living an exclusive humanism. The self-congratulatory discourse about our exceptional status on this score is right in this respect: no one else ever tried it. And by virtue of living through this experiment, we will be in a better position to understand why."

Charles Taylor, A Catholic Modernity 105-06 (1999), quoted in Brennan, A Quandary in Law?: A Qualified Catholic Denial, 44 San Diego L. Rev. 97 (2007).

The Cruciform Life

"However learned, however cosmopolitan, however politically aware and culturally engaged he or she may become,  The Christian must always register a clear and final deferral on the world's favor in view of the cross and its benefits."

 Charles Marsh, Wayward Christian Soldiers, pp. 135–136.