Know where you stand

“I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold, and what they do not, who know their creed so well, that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.” St. John Henry Newman

This was written during a time of anti-Catholic hysteria and anti-Catholic sentiment in England. But the quote fits well in today's secular opinion, on-line rage, "wokeness," and cancel culture. There was a time during the reign of Elizabeth I of England when Protestants were told Catholics had the plague and they shouldn't breathe the same air. They were forbidden to attend their own churches. Sound familiar?

From the podcast of James T. Majewski, Oct. 9 www.catholicculture.org