“Of all the institutions in their lives, only the Catholic Church has seemed aware of the fact that my mother and father are thinkers – persons aware of the experience of their lives. Other institutions – the nation’s political parties, the industries of mass entertainment and communications, the companies that employed them – have all treated my parents with condescension.”

“Of all the institutions in their lives, only the Catholic Church has seemed aware of the fact that my mother and father are thinkers – persons aware of the experience of their lives. Other institutions – the nation’s political parties, the industries of mass entertainment and communications, the companies that employed them – have all treated my parents with condescension.”

— Richard Rodriguez