Spiritual Snobbery & Demi-Intellectual Bluster

even though catastrophe was aroundnevery corner. He anticipated all but one:nhe could not have known how VaticannII would knock "the guts out of me."nIt was a fine trial, and perhaps a necessarynone. lest he give more emphasisnto the nonessentials than they deserved,nHe clung to his faith doggedly . . .