Richard P. McBrien

“freedom. We become mere actors in a play written wholly by God, with an ending already precisely determined regardless of our flubbing our lines and missing our cues. We need not trouble ourselves, therefore, about this world’s injustices. God will take care of everything in the end. At the other extreme, some solutions have tried so hard to uphold the enduring value of human effort that God becomes little more than a play’s producer, backing it with money and influence but depending utterly upon the ability of the actors, director, designers, stagecrew, and the like for its eventual success. Thus, if we do not overcome injustice in the world by our political efforts, the injustice will simply swallow us up in the end, and history will have”
― Richard P. McBrien, Catholicism: New Study Edition—Completely Revised and Updated – The Classic Text on Understanding the Catholic Faith