The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.

The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.

To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.

I think that when we believe that something is right, there's a serious ambivalence about it. On one hand, you say, because it's right, it must be victorious. On the other hand, you say, it's right whether it's victorious or not. And this is what I believe about a free society.