Quotes from James Carroll

the nobility of what humans could be capable of, if only they weren't human.

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good tidings to the afflicted; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted.

scientific naturalism has proven incapable of accounting for a whole range of human experiences, from simple self-awareness to love.

Asked to describe the Holy One, Jesus told the story of the father whose bond with his son, no matter the son's unworthiness, was unbreakable.

the expectation that he will come again—in fulfillment of all human longing at the end of time. "Parousia" is the technical name for this expectation; "eschatology

All of these imitators imitated Jesus for one reason: because he was God made man.

the grace of what makes him different, is what enables him to "stand up.

Restlessness, therefore, is not to be regretted, but marshaled. Humans live toward.

Os nazistas foram explícitos ao definir os judeus, desde o início, como o grupo rejeitado em relação ao qual a "totalidade" se definia a si própria. Se a Igreja não ficou ofendida por isso, foi porque o cristianismo tinha feito a mesma coisa.

Por causa da "sombria simbiose" entre o antigo ódio cristão contra os judeus e o racismo moderno, o programa antijudaico de Hitler, mesmo no seu ponto extremo, simplesmente não era tão ofensivo para a ampla população de católicos.

Discipleship is a commitment to the memory and presence of Jesus Christ that makes a difference in how a life is lived, driving thought and behavior week in and week out.

Generating a neurotic pathology in many priests, and prompting many others to protect themselves and the institution instead of victims, clericalism, I will argue in this book, is both the root cause and the corrupter, the ongoing enabler of the present Catholic catastrophe. The priesthood itself is warped.

Respect for everyone he met. The preference of service over power. The rejection of violence. Israel—its Law and worship—as the primal source of meaning.

Having seen what the Catholic priesthood has become, I feel the shock, also, of what it has in some way been all along.

separated Peter from the vile and suicidal Judas was that he, Peter, had lived long enough to find his offense transformed—through no merit of his own—by the loving acceptance of Jesus. The humiliated Peter was, in the same moment, the forgiven Peter.

The Holy One's nearness, the readiness to name the Holy One as God, and the recognition of God as Father.

It has become routine for Catholics today to denounce clericalism — the supernatural status claimed for priests. Clerics themselves denounce it. But what is suspect, finally, is the priesthood as such. It's an illusion to pretend that "clericalism" exists apart from the entire culture defined by the sacrament of holy orders, which is the formal name of the priestly ordination rite.

Augustine's dualism saw the male as spirit and the female as flesh, which made male supremacy the foundation stone of existence. Female flesh was properly held in contempt.

Apart from the museums that anchor the great cities of Europe and America, the Roman Catholic Church is what remains of "Christendom," the generating aesthetic and intellectual tradition of Western civilization.

The Jews remain the chosen people of God. The Jewish rejection of Jesus as the Son of God is an affirmation of faith that Christians must respect.

Indeed, by the time of the Temple destruction, which set in motion the separation of "the Jews" from "Christians," Paul was dead. That is why it is absurd to imagine that he himself caused the separation. Any imagined echo in his multifaceted writing of a distinction between "the Church" and "the Synagogue" resounds anachronistically from a future that did not yet exist—a fully ruptured Israel of which Paul knew nothing. The

The Gospel, expressing Jewish understanding and hope, was a Jewish invention.

Thou art my beloved Son." Thou: the intimate form of address from God. Nothing could be more powerful, or more permanent, than that. Or more Jewish.

live more humanly, bravely, and compassionately in such circumstances, mainly through a call to discipleship