Thomas Woods on the Church's Contributions to Western Civilization

"About the least fashionable thing one can do these days is utter a kind word about the Catholic Church. The idea that the church has been an obstacle to human progress has been elevated to the level of something everybody thinks he knows. But to the contrary, it is to the Catholic Church more than to any other institution that we owe so many of the treasures of Western civilization. Knowingly or not, scholars operated for two centuries under an Enlightenment prejudice that assumes all progress to come from religious skeptics, and that whatever the church touches is backward, superstitious, even barbaric."

In a recent commentary, Thomas E. Woods reflected on the Church's contributions, over the centuries, to science and to other components of Western civilization.

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Deseret News: Commentary: History shows contributions of Catholic Church to Western civilization (28 DEC 11)