It is often surprising to see how true and applicable is George Orwell’s aphorism that “to see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.” Sometimes one discovers what was directly in front of one’s nose only after walking away from that place, and seeing it floating mid-air from a distance. Fr Aidan Nichols, writing in the Catholic Herald, does make some interesting points in his article “The March of Nonsense on Stilts”, but where he fails, it is exactly in the aforementioned blindness to the obvious. [Read more →]