Yep, he we will be back to shacking up with women in no time, and writing a popular account of his Christian period.
Agreed
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
When one reads Augustine’s Confessions, it becomes clear his conversion was no quick overnight thing. It was a long and painful process. He didn’t seek publicity with it. In fact, he sought more of a hermit like way of life. He accepted being a bishop more reluctantly.
It was a long and painful process.
But when it came, it came like lightning: take up and read, take up and read.
Saint Augustine strove for anonymity and failed miserably at it. His copious correspondence with the great Christian names of his day, ever kept him in the limelight of what passed for celebrity culture of his time. I suggest no hypocrisy on his part, but merely that even then celebrity, once it attached itself to a man or a woman, tended to stick.
If Augustine were alive today, he’d probably be the first to tell Shia to keep his religious conversion out of the limelight if he knew what was good for him and stay away from people like Bp Barron.
Perhaps, although first he would be asking a lot of questions about what a movie was, the process by which saints are now acclaimed, the current status of actors and actresses, the facts behind the battle over the Mass, etc. When citing an authority who lived sixteen centuries in the past, the questions they would be asking about our time before making any assessment would be considerable.