The Church: Divine and Human, Sinners and Saints

In this short excerpt, Father Roderick Strange speaks to those who want to write off the church. It is written primarily to a Roman Catholic audience, but it relates quite well to Protestants as well:

There are always those who are anxious to explain away the divine nature of the Church. They examine its history, analyse its political position, assess the sociological factors, keep in mind the psychological need that human beings have for the religious, and pronounce that the phenomenon of the Christian Church…