Quotes from Karl Keating

Are you saved?" asks the fundamentalist. "I am redeemed," answers the Catholic, "and like the apostle Paul I am working out my salvation in fear and trembling, with hopeful confidence—but not with a false assurance—and I do all this as the Church has taught, unchanged, from the time of Christ.

Rhetoric uses syllogisms and other suasions to bring about a change of heart and of mind.

We once enjoyed fairly high rhetoric in America, most notably in our politics, but few today will have images of the Roman Senate brought to mind when they read of the goings on in the United States Senate.

for the most part we can say that the disputes are about him yet don't involve him. He has shown a singular capacity to plant seeds that others nurture into disputes. (That is one complaint about him: his imprecisions invite others to reach conflicting interpretations of papal statements.)

It's unfortunate in that it's only a step away from mere name-calling,

What really stopped me was that there was no way to try out for Mensa without looking conceited.

Francis because it has not had the key to him: he is Juan Perón in ecclesiastical translation.

Sometimes, where there's smoke, there's only smoke.)

papal tyrant the like of whom has not been seen for many centuries.