"When I read the Catechism of the Council of Trent, gives me the impression that they have nothing in common with religion than it is exposed. When I read the New Testament, the mystics, the liturgy, when I see celebrating Mass, I feel some form of certainty that faith is mine, or more precisely, it would be mine without the distance between her and I put my imperfection. ... "
The letter addressed to Simone Weil Dominican Jean Couturier in 1942 is an exceptional value even today. Not only as a witness to the intellectual and moral rigor of the author and of his uncompromising commitment to the truth, but as an expression of the tension that faces the authenticity of a radically lived faith with sclerotization of dogma.