Sublime

John O’Donohue, a former Irish Catholic priest, philosopher, poet, and, in his own words, mystic

For this reason the Council was not first of all to condemn the errors of the time, but above all to strive calmly to show the strength and beauty of the doctrine of the faith.

Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, at sixty-eight, was not only the oldest, but the most senior commander in the Wehrmacht.e Known as the “Black Knight” (Schwarzer Ritter), he had led the invasion of Poland in 1939, the breakthrough in the Ardennes in 1940, and the capture of Kiev in 1941.

By a Schaefferian strategy,

as pure relation, pure unity. This fundamental statement about Christ becomes, as we have seen, at the same time the explanation of Christian existence.

in the rhythms of worship, the Spirit inscribes in us the character that makes us a certain kind of person.

The fusion of politics and religion in Islam, which necessarily restricts the freedom of other religions, and thus of Christians, too, is contrasted with the freedom of religion, which now to a certain extent also views the secular state as the correct form of government that allows room for the freedom of religion that Christians have claimed from

that it devolves on humanity to establish a political, social and economic order which will growingly serve man and help individuals as well as groups to affirm and develop the dignity proper to them” (GS, 9).