LibriVox recording of Europe and the Faith, by Hilaire
Belloc. Read by Ray Clare.
The Catholic brings to history (when I say "history" in
these pages I mean the history of Christendom)
self-knowledge. As a man in the confessional accuses himself
of what he knows to be true and what other people cannot
judge, so a Catholic, talking of the united European
civilization, when he blames it, blames it for motives and
for acts which are his own. He himself could have done those
things in person. He is not relatively right in his blame,
he is absolutely right. As a man can testify to his own
motive so can the Catholic testify to unjust, irrelevant, or
ignorant conceptions of the European story; for he knows why
and how it proceeded. Others, not Catholic, look upon the
story of Europe externally as strangers. "They" have to deal
with something which presents itself to them partially and
disconnectedly, by its phenomena alone: "he" sees it all from
its centre in its essence, and together.
- Hilaire Belloc
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Artist/Composer: Hilaire Belloc
Date: 2009-12-23
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: Audiobook; LibriVox; Roman Catholic Church;
history; Europe; Christianity
Creative Commons license: Public Domain
1 Section 01 Introduction 14:12 2 Section 02 Introduction (continued) 14:39 3 Section 03 Introduction (concluded) 10:59 4 Section 04 Chapter 1 13:54 5 Section 05 Chapter 1 (continued) 13:55 6 Section 06 Chapter 1 (concluded) 8:22 7 Section 07 Chapter 2 15:05 8 Section 08 Chapter 2 (continued) 13:56 9 Section 09 Chapter 2 (continued) 14:20 10 Section 10 Chapter 2 (concluded) 14:14 11 Section 11 Chapter 3 13:33 12 Section 12 Chapter 3 (continued) 14:55 13 Section 13 Chapter 3 (continued) 14:24 14 Section 14 Chapter 3 (concluded) 9:07 15 Section 15 Chapter 4 14:10 16 Section 16 Chapter 4 (continued) 14:33 17 Section 17 Chapter 4 (continued) 13:29 18 Section 18 Chapter 4 (concluded) 11:16 19 Section 19 Chapter 5 13:45 20 Section 20 Chapter 5 (continued) 14:19 21 Section 21 Chapter 5 (continued) 13:58 22 Section 22 Chapter 5 (continued) 14:19 23 Section 23 Chapter 5 (continued) 14:45 24 Section 24 Chapter 5 (continued) 15:01 25 Section 25 Chapter 5 (concluded) 7:16 26 Section 26 Chapter 6 13:07 27 Section 27 Chapter 6 (continued) 10:54 28 Section 28 Chapter 6 (concluded) 9:55 29 Section 29 Chapter 7 12:52 30 Section 30 Chapter 7 (concluded) 14:16 31 Section 31 Chapter 8 14:55 32 Section 32 Chapter 8 (concluded) 18:06 33 Section 33 Chapter 9 11:08 34 Section 34 Chapter 9 (continued) 10:57 35 Section 35 Chapter 9 (continued) 10:47 36 Section 36 Chapter 9 (concluded) 8:53 37 Section 37 Chapter 10 11:50 38 Section 38 Chapter 10 (concluded) 11:25