Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.

There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.

Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction

Each heart has its graveyard, each household its dead, And knells ring around us wherever we tread, And the feet that awhile made our pathway so bright Pass on to a land that is out of our sight.

A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.