The Cardinal Ratzinger quote is from his 2005 Homily at the Mass for the election of the Roman Pontiff.

The Nick Tate quote is from a speech to the SCAA on 15 January 1996.

The Cardinal Ratzinger quote on Galileo: Joseph Ratzinger,

Corriere della Sera,

30 March 1990; 30

Dias , January 1993, p. 34.

The Alisdair MacIntyre quotes are from Alisdair MacIntyre,

After Virtue,

2nd edn. (London: Duckworth, 1985), p. 222; and MacIntyre’s 'A Partial Response to My Critics’ is in J. Horton and S. Mendus (eds.),

After MacIntyre (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994), p. 289.

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