About the least fashionable thing one can do these days is
utter a kind word about the Catholic Church. The idea that the
church has been an obstacle to human progress has been elevated to
the level of something everybody thinks he knows. But to the
contrary, it is to the Catholic Church more than to any other
institution that we owe so many of the treasures of Western
civilization. Knowingly or not, scholars operated for two centuries
under an Enlightenment prejudice that assumes all progress to come
from religious skeptics, and that whatever the church touches is
backward, superstitious, even barbaric.
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