The Holy Catholic Church and Christian Culture, From The Foundation of Christendom to the rise of Islam by H. Belloc

 The Holy Catholic Church and Christian Culture, From The Foundation of Christendom to the rise of 

Islam by H. Belloc

The Holy Catholic Church and Christian Culture, From The Foundation of Christendom by H. Belloc,

We must begin by laying down as a historical fact not to be removed by affection one way or the other, that the conversion of the Roman Empire was a conversion to what was called by all our ancestry and what is still called by those with any historical sense The Catholic Church.

The Empire was not ‘converted’ to what modern men mean when they used the word ‘Christianity’. 

The phrase is continually used and as continually corrupts the historical judgement of those who use it and those who hear it. 

In the ears of modern youth, especially in societies which have lost the Catholic Culture, the word ‘Christianity’ means vaguely, “That which is common in various sects, opinions and moods inherited indiluted form from the Reformation”. 

In England today, for instance ‘Christianity’ means a general feeling of kindliness, particularly to 

animals.