Scribe of the Kingdom

Aidan Nichols opens his major two-volume study of theology and culture with a powerful statement of the ''intelligent conservatism'' which he sees, not as one way of being Catholic among others, but as the very teaching of Jesus Christ.

The ''intelligent conservative'' is, indeed, the ''scribe of the Kingdom'' described in our Lord''s parable; ''Every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of ...