My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.

Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.

Whatever else the religious Right may be, it is a bonanza for its opponents... Reports of the great terror that is upon us are raising millions of dollars in fund appeals by Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Organization for Women, Norman Lear's People for the American Way, and others who claim to believe that the religious Right is the greatest peril to American democracy since Joe McCarthy.

We shall not weary, we shall not rest, as we stand guard at the entrance gates and the exit gates of life, and at every step along way of life, bearing witness in word and deed to the dignity of the human person-of every human person.

One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.

In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner.

The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.