Tracey Rowland

“Only a belief in a truth that transcends all forms of tribalism and herd mentality can be a sufficient foil to totalitarian ideologies and practices.”

“It is no surprise that reason separated from faith ends up violently irrational, or that nature separated from grace ends up grotesquely unnatural, or that history separated from ontology ends up hostile to tradition and banal.”

“The idea of jettisoning ‘the speech of Christian centuries’ and ‘the language of the angels’ for a language ‘as contemporary as the Beatles’ affects all dimensions of culture.”

“Without timeless, binding faith propositions, there is nothing to judge the elements within the spiritual atmosphere, nothing to distinguish the Christian-friendly elements from the Christian-toxic elements.”

“Catholic scholars need to go beyond a theologically neutered conception of natural law as a lingua franca with which to engage proponents of hostile traditions.”

“It is the element of creative freedom within human nature that is so vulnerable to damage from a secularist culture. The severance of the links between notions of God, human nature, ethos, and religion, and the emergence of counterfeit notions of faith, hope, and love, set limits on the intellectual horizons of people.”