History Repeated

An English-language article by Elizabeth Lev has been linked at French Catholic websites. A translation into French, by Jeanne Smits, can be found here. Catholics (and others) may find it of interest, since it deals in part with Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France and today's condemnation of the Church for (presumed) crimes of pedophilia.

The introduction reads:

To Edmund Burke it was clear that the anti clerical campaign of 1790 was "only to be temporary and preparatory to the utter abolition.... of the Christian religion," by " bringing its ministers into universal contempt." One hopes Americans will have the good sense to change course long before we reach that point.