Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Speaking with authority

The Gospel reading at yesterday's Mass talks of how the people listened to Jesus because unlike the scribes he taught them with authority.

Albert Einstein while living in Switzerland as a young man wrote to Professor Jost Winteler: ‘Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth’.

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