To Change the Church Quotes

“Catholicism’s influence could make right-wing politics less bigoted and left-wing politics less materialistic,”
― Ross Douthat, To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism

“Jesus whose anger at legalism is directed against the ritual law of first-century Judaism—”
― Ross Douthat, To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism

“Liberal Catholicism’s difficulty, now as forty years ago, is that it has the most appeal to Catholics with the loosest connections to the church, and its appeal weakens as the intensity of commitment increases.”
― Ross Douthat, To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism

“Meanwhile, African mass attendance is presently close to 70 percent; mass attendance in Europe in 20 percent,”
― Ross Douthat, To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism