Religious hatreds tend to be merciless and absolute.

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

The kiss is a wordless articulation of desire whose object lies in the future, and somewhat to the south.

Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram.

The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.

A day cannot live in infamy without the nourishment of rage. Let's have rage.

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.