Friday, August 16, 2013

Goethe on Catholicism

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, one of Germany's great writers, described the history of Catholicism as a hotchpotch of errors and violence.

He was born in Frankfurt-am-Main in 1749 and died in Weimar in 1832, where he is buried.

The former GDR authorities made much play on his association with Weimar, which is in the territory of the former GDR.

No comments:

Featured Post

‘Nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so’

This week’s column in The Kerryman newspaper. Michael Commane  A large crowd got off the train in Killarney. I was in the front of the trai...