If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.

Penance does not require hair shirts today; our neighbors are hair shirts.

I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

If I were not a Catholic, and were looking for the true Church in the world today, I would look for the one Church which did not get along well with the world; in other words, I would look for the Church which the world hated.

The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.

Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.

It's impossible to lose your footing when you're on your knees.