Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

Thanksgiving comes after Christmas.

Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints. . . He wants us to pray through Mary and not only directly.

No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.

If you are truly confident about something, you welcome honest questions about it.

There is no effective rational answer to the challenge: "But give me a reason why I should love someone who does not deserve it." Love is the highest thing. There can be no higher reason to justify it.

Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.