"After his victory at the Milvian Bridge, faithful to his promise, Constantine favors the church from which he has rec…"

"The combination of Christian truth and political power led to the creation of the complex that we know so well. … The…"

"It is frightening to see how easily the church accepts all this. Hardly had it achieved peace before it itself began …"

"The conversion of Constantine ... was the effective beginning of “Christendom,” namely, of that particular form of th…"

"Cultural elites in countries that dominate peoples have adapted subject people’s religion for their own purposes."

"The Church had acquired a protector, but it had also acquired a master."

"Woe to the Christian Church when it will have been victorious in this world, for then it is not the Church that has b…"

"It is impossible to enumerate how thoroughly Catholicism today is saturated by middle-class reasonableness; one need …"

"From the time that the heads of government assumed an external and nominal Christianity, men began to invent all the …"

"For the early Church, "church" and "world" were visibly distinct yet affirmed in faith to have one and the same lord.…"