Catholic religion is the only religion – all sects are derivative. Buddhism and similar Oriental philosophies and mythologies are not religions in any sense. They have no Covenants and no Sacraments and no Theology. The very notion of “comparative” Religion is ridiculous. Now, the Catholic religion, as you may be able to check in your own experience of it, is alone in blessing and employing all those merely human faculties which produce games and philosophy, and poetry and music and mirth and fellowship with a very fleshly basis. It alone makes terms with what our sects have hated and called by ugly names – e.g., “carnal” which is delightfully near to “charnel”. The Catholic Church does not despise or wantonly mortify those members and faculties which Christ deigned to assume. They are henceforth holy and blessed.