Two millennia into the Christian era, the niceness of Christians is on the way to becoming the biggest threat to Christianity. “I came to cast fire upon the earth,” Jesus famously said. The characteristic gesture of our religiosity may be the limp handshake of peace.
“God doesn’t need ‘nice’ Christians,” Archbishop Charles J. Chaput writes in Living the Catholic Faith. The archbishop of Denver is not nice. On the evidence of this splendid little book, he is a zealous believer with an apostolic heart.
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