Tuesday 26th January 2010
by TomI agree with you about St. Thomas More. He is, for us, the Road Back. For our countrymen, I mean, for Southerners…. He is the man to pray to for the conversion of the South. One of the stumbling blocks to the Southerner (or American) who is drawn to the Church is that he sees not the Church of More, not the English church which is his spiritual home, but the Church of St. Alphonsus by way of Irish Jesuits. If he does go in, he must go in with face averted and his nose held against the odor of Italian-Irish pietism and all the bad statues and architecture.
Cited in an essay by Marion Montgomery entitled, “With Walker Percy at the Tupperware Party.”
Tags: The South, Thomas More
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I just received my copy of Marion Montgomery’s book by the same title. I’m looking forward to reading it. I have to say that Percy is making an interesting point here on the way we express “the faith once delivered” through our local biases and traditions. If Jesus were walking the Earth today would he still look like Middle Eastern carpenter or would he be an Italian cardinal or a Southern businessman?