Own your own crazy

"The name 'Barth' in the revisionist statements above does not refer to the actually existing textual Barth.  It refers, rather, to the rationalistically deduced Barth.  Only the deduced Barth teaches that there is no Trinity prior to election."

     George Hunsinger, Reading Barth with charity:  a hermeneutical proposal (Grand Rapids, MI:  Baker Academic, 2015), 79.  "It is my hope that the book might be of some value for students of Barth even after revisionism vanishes from the scene (as it will).  Revisionism is of little interest in its own right.  It claims attention mainly as an example of how not to read Karl Barth.  If only the revisionists would cease ascribing their views to Barth, they would have nothing to fear from his more careful readers" (115).

A plague on both your houses

     "Once again, at this point, we must speak plainly:  there is practically no liturgy worthy of the name today in the Catholic Church.  Yesterday's liturgy was hardly more than an embalmed cadaver.  What people call liturgy today is little more than this same cadaver decomposed."

     Louis Bouyer, The decomposition of Catholicism, trans. Charles Underhill Quinn (Chicago:  Franciscan Herald Press, 1969 [1968]), 105.

Bouyer on "the new evangelization" (avant la lettre)

"There is no 'salvation without the Gospel,' no 'anonymous Christianity,' no 'implicit Church.'  These are so many chimeras that worn-out Christians have invented to dispense themselves from working at a task that they are obliged to perform even though they think they have lost the means to do so.
     "For the world to be saved, in the evangelical sense of the word, we have first to believe that it needs to be.  We must then believe not that we have the means but that God has them, since through no merit of our own he revealed them to us, and that he has entrusted them to us."

     Louis Bouyer, The decomposition of Catholicism, trans. Charles Underhill Quinn (Chicago:  Franciscan Herald Press, 1969 [1968]), 99-100.

"the good priests who still believe in God and Jesus Christ, and do not have a mistress"

"If the good priests who still believe in God and Jesus Christ, and do not have a mistress are all integralists, what good Catholics would not want to close ranks behind them?"

     Louis Bouyer, on the "integralism" of the Lefebvrists.  The decomposition of Catholicism, trans. Charles Underhill Quinn (Chicago:  Franciscan Herald Press, 1969 [1968]), 51-52.

"Those Catholics who want only to look at the Omega point can preserve Christ only by volatizing him into pure mythology."

     Louis Bouyer, The decomposition of Catholicism, trans. Charles Underhill Quinn (Chicago:  Franciscan Herald Press, 1969 [1968]), 44.

Episcopal naïveté

"Of all Christians and all the clergy it was the bishops who were accustomed or caused to be accustomed to living in the most protected regions of the Catholic hinterland.  Consequently for the great body of them to speak of the world was to speak from hearsay."

     Louis Bouyer, The decomposition of Catholicism, trans. Charles Underhill Quinn (Chicago:  Franciscan Herald Press, 1969 [1968]), 40.

"'The greatest danger for ecumenism is that Catholics grow into enthusiasts for everything we have recognized as harmful, and abandon everything whose importance we have rediscovered.'"

     "one of the best contemporary ecumenists, a Protestant," to Louis Bouyer.  The decomposition of Catholicism, trans. Charles Underhill Quinn (Chicago:  Franciscan Herald Press, 1969 [1968]), 36.