In the long run, any attempt to reduce the complexity of the relations among the sacred, the properly secular, and the profane is doomed to failure, although each such effort can cause great human hardship in the short run. But in both the short and the long run, the Church, or the synagogue, or the mosque or the temple, is where you go when you want to be connected to the One who relates to everyone and every people. If the Church is where one goes to be truly free, how does the Church contribute to our understanding of who we are and what we should do in the activities that shape the world we live in, that fill the theater of secularity?


God in Action: How Faith in God Can Address the Challenges of the World (2011) Ch. 1 "God in American Public Life," pp. 46-47.

Francis George Quotes

In the long run, any attempt to reduce the complexity of the relations among the sacred, the properly secular, and the profane is doomed to failure,...

In the long run, any attempt to reduce the complexity of the relations among the sacred, the properly secular, and the profane is doomed to failure,...

In the long run, any attempt to reduce the complexity of the relations among the sacred, the properly secular, and the profane is doomed to failure,...

In the long run, any attempt to reduce the complexity of the relations among the sacred, the properly secular, and the profane is doomed to failure,...