“No man's stature is increased by the accumulation of myths, and nothing is detracted from genuine historical greatness by the consideration of a man's purely human side.”
Heinrich Fichtenau on Charlemagne 1
Perhaps the person most surprised by Marshall McLuhan's conversion to Catholicism was Marshall himself.
He told me the story of his conversion several times over the years that we worked together. It had, in his mind, two phases. The first consisted of how the Church and its claims repeatedly intruded on his attention while he was trying to focus on other scholarly matters so often and so powerfully that he eventually felt forced to "deal" with them.
The second consisted of the events that precipitated his actual conversion and acceptance into the Church.
-Eric McLuhan
