Saturday July 9, 2005

Today’s birthday: Tom Hanks

Catholic Encyclopedia, 1908:

“In its wider sense this term is used to describe the part of the world which is inhabited by Christians…. But there is a narrower sense in which Christendom stands for a polity as well as a religion, for a nation as well as for a people. Christendom in this sense was an ideal which inspired and dignified many centuries of history and which has not yet altogether lost its power over the minds of men.”