I 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.”

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