The only real fall of man is his noneucharistic life in a noneucharistic world.

Centuries of secularism have failed to transform eating into something strictly utilitarian. Food is still treated with reverence...To eat is still something more than to maintain bodily functions. People may not understand what that 'something more' is, but they nonetheless desire to celebrate it. They are still hungry and thirsty for sacramental life.

In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion.

The only real fall of man is his noneucharistic life in a noneucharistic world.

If the Church is in Christ, its initial act is always the act of thanksgiving, of returning the world to God.

It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth, whereas both truth and goodness are always transcendent.

Academic theology is false.