Some worry endlessly over missions that were missed, or marriages that did not turn out, or babies that did not arrive, or children that seem lost, or dreams unfulfilled, or because age limits what they can do. I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough....Some needlessly carry a heavy burden of guilt which could be removed through confession and repentance.

Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.

If you have stumbled or even been lost for a time, you can move forward with faith and not wander to and fro in the world any longer.

Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.

Faith is the power, obedience the sacrifice, love the means, Christ the reason.

Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.

The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly scoffed at-marriage and parenthood ridiculed as burdensome, unnecessary. Modesty, a virtue of a refined individual or society, is all but gone.