How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph.)
Quote #4
"One day they'll forget there ever was a Church here." (1.4.86)
The lieutenant hopes for this, religiously. He desires this not only for others, but for himself. His public policy is deeply rooted in his personal hurts and dreams.
Quote #5
The Church taught that it was every man's first duty to save his own soul. The simple ideas of hell and heaven moved in his brain; life without books, without contact with educated men, had peeled away from his memory everything but the simplest outline of the mystery. (2.1.49)
In an effort to appeal to everyone, Catholicism has always instructed the faithful in both simple and complex terms. It teaches with simple prayers, creeds, stained glass images, and stories, but also with dense theological arguments, complicated theories of interpretation, and involved analysis of symbols and metaphors.
Quote #6
"Don't you understand, father? We don't want you any more."
"Oh yes," he said. "I understand. But it's not what you want—or I want…" (2.1.163-4)
In the Catholic faith, freedom means discerning God's will and living in obedience to it. Freedom is the ability to choose and do good free of hindrance, not the power to act however you will.