Suffering and evil will not have the last word.

There's no possibility for vitality in the church without fidelity to the gospels. If you look at the Churches throughout the world, throughout the Western world, where radical reform has been attempted, the Church has collapsed and almost disappeared. The vitality in the Church, the young people who are here in their tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands possibly, young people who belong, who adhere strongly to the central tradition of Christ and the Church.

The church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity.

Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people.

Couples with children who do win a divorce, cause such social havoc that they should have to pay a special divorce tax.

Suffering and evil will not have the last word.

Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.