John Cornwell > Quotes

“When Teresa reported fresh visions and voices, and in particular, the actual, physical presence of Jesus, he was sceptical. He recommended that she get out more,”
― John Cornwell, The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession

“The borderless economy in which money, technology, industry and goods move without hindrance throughout the world promises a future in which every home, in the words of Alvin Toffler, will become an ‘electronic cottage’. But globalization also has its losers, its economic have-nots, destined to be tranquillized by digitized trivial entertainment or to nourish hatreds that threaten to break out in violence.”
― John Cornwell, Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact

“Those familiar with Kasper’s views back in the mid-1990s noted that he was a champion of special “adaptations” to local circumstances: economy.”
― John Cornwell, Church, Interrupted: Havoc Hope: The Tender Revolt of Pope Francis

“the seventeenth-century saint, Margaret Marie Alacoque, a French nun of Parayle-Monial, who founded the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Margaret would deliberately eat cheese knowing that it made her vomit, and by her own admission she ate the vomit of sister nuns.”
― John Cornwell, The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession