| Author Quoted | Romano Guardini |
| Title Quoted | Pascal for Our Time |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1967/01/22 |
| Imprint | New York : [s.n.]. 1966 |
| Quotation | I have, in fact, just been reading Romano Guardini's excellent little book on Pascal. He analyzes the "demon of combativeness" in Pascal - a demon which is no prerogative of Jansenists. At times one wonders if a certain combativeness is not endemic in Catholicism: a "compulsion to be always right" and to prove the adversary wrong. A compulsion which easily leads to witch hunting and which, when turned the wrong way, hunts its witches in the Church herself and finally needs to find them in Rome. |
| Quotation Source | At Home in the World: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Rosemary Radford Ruether.; Edited by Mary Tardiff O.P. / Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books. 1995, p. 13 |
| Letter to | Rosemary Radford Ruether |
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