Reflections of a stormy petrel

Well, I am part of a movement that is trying to avoid the poisoning of the Catholic Church. To me, taken, as the Jesuits of Boston college take it, by itself, rather than putting truth first - and not only first, but second, third, fourth, and fifth at least - it is a royal road to egotism, vanity, schism, heresy, and folly. Have a look at the Episcopal Church in your country if you want to see what I mean. And do not think that that sort of thing is restricted to moneyed suburban Episcopalians with memberships in the local country club and Rotary's. Similar temptations can be found among Evangelicals, Southern Baptists, Orthodox, people of all and no faiths. The Church has an old name for it. It is called Worldliness, and it is one of the three great tempters: the World, the Flesh and the Devil. The minds that seeks for the Truth first will have, to paraphrase the Gospel, all these other things given to them; but anyone who puts any other intellectual gift, endowments, target for achievement, standard, or value, before truth, will infalliby ruin him/herself.