
German Democracy and the Docta Ignorantia
Democracy is not paradise, ideology, or a blank canvas for every political desire. It is a set of rules that demand restraint—and the humble recognition that we can be wrong.

Democracy is not paradise, ideology, or a blank canvas for every political desire. It is a set of rules that demand restraint—and the humble recognition that we can be wrong.

A silent, threatening fragmentation of the Catholic Church would be more difficult to correct than an open schism.


The God of Genesis may have promised never again to send a flood upon the whole earth; but he did not promise not to send capitalism.