Thought of the Day — G.K. Chesterton Refutes a Popular Indictment Against Catholics and Catholicism

Many of the Church’s detractors criticize her in light of adherents who don’t “walk the walk.” When hearing such comments, I'm reminded of this quote by G.K. Chesterton:

Most Christians fail to fulfill the Christian ideal. This bitter and bracing fact cannot be too much insisted upon in this and every other moral question. But, perhaps, it might be suggested that this failure is not so much

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