Benson at 100"The Royal Catholic Church: Ruthless with heresy and sin, kind with the heretic and the sinner"

"The Church will yield to the world,so long as her Divine Right remains intact."

For our third post celebrating the centenary of Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson (October 19, 1914), some reflections from his Paradoxes of Catholicism (conferences and sermons preached mostly in New York in 1912 and in Rome in 1913, and published not long before his death). They are reflections on the apparent