Colin Ahearn

“The most serious case of the falsification of a saint is certainly that of the very well-known son of Pietro di Bernardone and Pica de Bourlemont: that is, the John the Baptist of Assisi, who has been known throughout history by the name ‘Francis’, which derives from his maternal Franco-Provençal origins. For almost a century, his figure has been distorted by a kind of conspiracy that has taken shape in all sorts of mass media: books, newspapers, films, TV shows, musicals, theatrical performances, even comics and cartoons aimed at children. As a result, St. Francis has been presented to the wider public as though he were a ‘do-gooder’, a pacifist, an ecumenist, a revolutionary, egalitarian, permissive, and an enemy of culture and civilisation.”
― Guido Vignelli, Franciscan Catechism: Progressives' Fake News on the Saint from Assisi

“Separate man from his God and he has nothing left but the state.”
― Val Bianco, Sons of Cain

“Israel foresees and foretells; her religious genius has a spirit that is unshackled by the bonds of time, and her Yahweh speaks close to her ear.”
― Antonin Sertillanges, What Jesus Saw from the Cross

“The old adage was true; the surest proof of the Faith is that it has survived for two thousand years....in spite of the men that run it.”
― Val Bianco