To begin with, I will recall another quote from the Catholic monk Thomas Merton, who happened to be American, and who lived in the twentieth century, which I mention because of the bearing I think it has on the idea that Catholicism is some old and dusty irrelevance, when really it belongs not only to the past, but to contemporaneity, and not only to contemporaneity, but to eternity. Which cannot be said of anything that the secular world will offer us, at least where the secular world allows its achievements to be guided by fashions and trends, which by definition have something of a ‘sell by date,’ though if we do not incorporate such trends into our lives, as they appear on the cultural horizon, and inhabit or possess them as if they had some permanence, we can expect to be ignored, if not ostracized, by those who would regard the abiding by of them as indicators or measures of a person’s worth.