We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.

The good life for man is the life spent in seeking for the good life for man, and the virtues necessary for the seeking are those which will enable us to understand what more and what else the good life for man is.

Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve

Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?

Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere.

Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.

A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of shoring up the Roman imperium and ceased to identify the continuation of civility and moral community with the maintenance of that imperium. What they set themselves out to achieve instead - often not recognizing fully what they were doing - was the construction of new forms of community within which the moral life could be sustained so that both morality and civility might survive the coming age of barbarism and darkness.