| Author Quoted | Carl Amery |
| Title Quoted | Capitulation: The Lesson of German Catholicism |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1968/04/09 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : Herder and Herder. 1967 |
| Quotation | I think you are right when you say that Catholic spirituality has been too individualistic. That is just another way of saying that it has been the product of a middle-class environment. Carl Amery's book Capitulation has plenty to say about this kind of "milieu Catholicism" in Nazi Germany. We are about to have the same problems here. Though perhaps not quite in the same way. Unfortunately, I am not sure that a more revolutionary Catholicism cast in the mold of a socialist society is going to be much help either. We can't just go on fitting into somebody else's mold. |
| Quotation Source | The Road to Joy: Letters to New and Old Friends.; Edited by Robert E. Daggy. / [S.l.] : Flame. 1990, p. 365 |
| Letter to | Thomas J. O'Brien |
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