"It's just silly to look at the incredibly steep decline in the mainline and the clear institutional weakening of Catholicism in the 1960s and 70s and pretend that something really big didn't change then. It did change. There really was a significant institutional decline."

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Source : Source: www.christianpost.com

Ross Douthat

#Silly Quotes #Looks Quotes #Significant Quotes

“There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.”
“If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.”
“What's so sad is when we're younger, if you have a bad parent, that is normal to you and that's what you think of as healthy.”
“I do not know what has caused MacKinnon to become, and, more surprisingly, to remain, so obsessed with pornography, and so zealous for censorship. But let us not sacrifice our civil liberties on the altar of her obsession.”
“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece”
“The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.”

Source : "The Man Who Made Radio Talk". Popular Science Monthly, May 1929.
“My name, Paloma, means 'dove' in Spanish. It stands as a symbol of peace and purity.”
“We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing.”

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