Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
George Tyrrell
Born: February 6, 1861
Died: July 15, 1909 (aged 48)
Bio: George Tyrrell, S.J., was an Irish Jesuit priest and a modernist theologian and scholar. His attempts to evolve and adapt Catholic theology in the context of modern ideas made him a key figure in the modernist controversy within the Roman Catholic Church in the late 19th century.
Known for:
- A Much-Abused Letter (1906)
- Christianity at the Cross-Roads (1909)
- Medievalism: A Reply to Cardinal Mercier (1909)
- The Church and the future (1903)