Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.

We now know from neural-net technology that when there are more connections between points in a system, and there is greater strength between these connections, there will be sudden leaps in intelligence, where intelligence is defined as success rate in performing a task.

The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.

Over every living thing which is to spring up, to grow, to flower, to ripen during this day say again the words: This is my Body. And over every death-force which waits in readiness to corrode, to wither, to cut down, speak again your commanding words which express the supreme mystery of faith: This is my Blood.

The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself

The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules.

Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation.