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199 - Thomas Merton: Saint or Heretic?

Godsplaining

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The Mysterious East and Christendom

I think that there's a sensibility widely held among professing Christians or believing Christians that comparative religions is kind of a bankrupt enterprise. When we start affirming everything, you know, besides Catholicism, it ends up sounding relativistic, right? And indifferentist. But if they are present there, it's by virtue of the Catholic church spilling over its own bounds. It's not because like those religions save the people who profess those religions, qua, those religions. I mean, just to say that it's not big to say that isn't intolerant. It's just the truth and the greatest mercy that can be extended upon other people in order for them to partake of it

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