"But it's extraordinarily hard to know where to begin." "Begin anywhere.

It's all new to me." "Very good.

Well, yes: roughly we may say that the world is Christian, in the same sort of way, at least, in which Europe was Christian, say in the twelfth century.

There are survivals, of course, particularly in the East, where large districts still cling to their old superstitions; and there are even eminent men here and there who are not explicitly Catholics; but, as a whole, the world is Christian." "Do you mean Catholic ?" The priest stared a moment.
"Why, yes.

What else--- ?" "All right; go on." "Well then, to begin with England.