Constable John Stevens

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    The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
    —Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)

    On an old shore, the vulgar ocean rolls
    Noiselessly, noiselessly, resembling a thin bird,
    That thinks of settling, yet never settles, on a nest.
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)