Christians today "are the lonely custodians of realities that are not technically speaking matters of faith, even as they are dismissed as [such]."

Pontifical John Paul Institute of Washington, DC

"We should not fail to notice the unique situation that Christians are in today:  they are the lonely custodians of realities that are not technically speaking matters of faith, even as they are dismissed as 'matters of faith.'  Chesterton described this unique situation over a century ago.

Everything will be denied.  Everything will become a creed.  It is a reasonable position to deny the stones in the street; it will be a religious dogma to assert them.  It is a rational thesis that we are all in a dream; it will be a mystical sanity to say that we are all awake.  Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four.  Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer.  We shall be left defending, not only the incredible virtues and sanities of human life, but something more incredible still, this huge impossible universe which stares us in the face.  We shall fight for visible prodigies as if they were invisible.  We shall look on the impossible grass and the skies with a strange courage.  We shall be of those who have seen and yet have believed."

     Margaret H. McCarthy, quoting Heretics (1905), 305, in "The emperor’s (new) new clothes:  the logic of the new 'gender ideology,'" Communio:  international Catholic review 46, no. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 2019):  658 (620-659).