"Were the heavens ever opened and a glimpse of the world beyond vouchsafed to men's wondering eyes?"

"War! That is the enduring condition of the Church on this earth. That is what the word means when we call her militan…"

"Mr. Gladstone used to say that political ideals were never realised. That may be true, but it does not follow that th…"

"Modern altruism in its varied forms may be traced not obscurely to Christian influence, although even ethically it is…"

"Men may appeal with more or less of sincerity to Christian sentiment as a factor in political controversy, but they h…"

""The Fellowship of the Mystery"; that is St. Paul's account of Churchmanship. It is a fellowship, a common life; and …"

"If ideas in politics more than elsewhere are the children of practical needs, none the less is it true, that the actu…"

"It is not to revive of the corpse of past erudition that I have any desire, but rather to make more vivid the life of…"

"The medieval state had one basis of unity denied to the modern—religion. Baptism was a necessary element in true citi…"

"The ideal of Christendom as a whole, with Pope and Emperor at its head, gave way to the notion of the godly prince; a…"