The Catholic Church in the Modern World spiritual ideal and yet also real

ideal and yet also real

and elsewhere

the decay of art and culture

Burns (1906–1995) was a publisher and editor

The Catholic Church in the Modern World spiritual ideal and yet also realBy E. E. Y. Hales From the vantage point of the twenty first century, the Catholic Church and modernity seem to be two entities inextricably at odds with one another. Modernity, for better or worse, stands for change; the Church, for stasis. Following the upheaval of the French Revolution, the Church has been striving to sift the wheat from the chaff amongst the new ideas of modernity. Surveying the two centuries from the pre revolutionary ancin rgime