The Wisdom of the Church

The Church, rather than secular technocratic institutions, is equipped to perform the role of mother and guide because it does not offer something dreamt up in a philosophe’s cafe or government office, but its very self: “After all the Church is not an ideal to be striven for: she exists and they’re within her.” The Church engages cultures and peoples as they are, in their givenness: “Our Father takes our poor world as it is, not like the charlatans who manufacture one on paper and keep on reforming it, still on paper.”