We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

God can show Himself as He really is only to real men. And that means not simply to men who are individually good, but to men who are united together in a body, loving one another, helping one another, showing Him to one another. For that is what God meant humanity to be like; like players in one band, or organs in one body.

In the name of the Fathers, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen.

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And this is, in principle, how Hitler treated the Jews. They were objects; killed not for ill desert but because, on his theories, they were a disease in society. If society can mend, remake, and unmake men at its pleasure, its pleasure may, of course, be humane or homicidal. The difference is important. But, either way, rulers have become owners.

The cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning!