Difference of religion is, as the wise Hilaire Belloc says (I forget where), a much greater barrier than difference of language.

The fundamental line of cleavage is between that which is Catholic and that which is not. It is not between Christian and non-Christian, or between Catholic and Protestant, or between Christian and Jew, or between Western and Eastern, or between North and South, or between up and down.

The Catholic Church is the divinely appointed expositor of the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Perhaps "the whole truth" is an exaggeration - but the whole of Divine Revelation, in any case.

Anyhow, the officially secular age in which we live does not understand us. It does not understand very much, but it certainly does not understand us Catholics. But we understand it.

It has its tragic and its comic aspects.