I have been reading YouCat, ie the Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church. It is well worth studying, though you can’t read it straight through, obviously. In the margin alongside Question 242, “Why should the Church take special care of the sick?” there is a quote from the German Nobel Prize-winning author, Heinrich Böll:
“I would prefer even the worst possible Christian world to the best pagan world, because in a Christian world there is room for those for whom no pagan world ever made room: cripples and sick people, the old and the weak. And there was more than room for them: there was love for those who seemed and seem useless to the pagan and the godless world.”
