Whittaker Chambers, Witness, New York: Random House, 1952, 4-5.
"I have testified against [Mr. Hiss] with remorse and pity."
To elaborate on the Magisterium of the Catholic Church is our mission on Plinthos (Gk. "brick"); and to do so anonymously, so that, like any brick in the wall, we might do our little part in the strength of the structure of humanity almost unnoticed.
Thursday, October 11, 2018
Tragedy in Culture Wars Defined --Whittaker Chambers
"Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy--not defeat or death. That is why the spectacle of tragedy has always filled men, not with despair, but with a sense of hope and exaltation... [T]his tragedy will have been for nothing unless men understand it rightly, and from it the world takes hope and heart to begin its own struggle with the evil that besets it from within and from without, unless it faces the fact that the world, the whole world, is sick unto death and that, among other things, [the Hiss] Case has turned a finger of fierce light into the suddenly opened and reeking body of our time."
Whittaker Chambers, Witness, New York: Random House, 1952, 4-5.
Whittaker Chambers, Witness, New York: Random House, 1952, 4-5.