"in this lies the great danger for the Catholic Christian [trapped in the abstract realm of the natural law]: [that] for the merely intellectual possession of the truth [he will] neglect being fervently possessed by it" in such a way as to live it out in the concrete circumstances of space and time.
Ignaz Zangerle in early Nazi Germany, "Zur Situation der Kirche," Der Brenner 14 (1933-1934): 59.
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