I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration.

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

All my life I have prayed to God that I should remain religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically liberal and economically pragmatic.

Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.

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