Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.

It is not a loss of inert, amorphous tissue, but of a growing being unique in history.

Somehow we just dont make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.

Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.

God's presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel.

Sex is still the leading cause of pregnancy.

Disaster movies do us the psychological service of forcing a quick march through the worst that could happen. At the end we see that you win a few, you lose a few, some cars are up in trees, and only the most attractive of the young people have survived.