Archbishop Chaput Quotes

Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty--these are Christian values.

Second, there is no truth, no real mercy and no authentic compassion in blessing a course of action that leads persons away from God.

Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.

Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. Archbishop of Philadelphia

At any given moment, there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas, which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that, or the other, but it is ‘not done’ to say it . . . [And] anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, whether in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals.