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

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

If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion.

If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention.

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.

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

Every day of the year is a good day to think more deeply about Good Friday, for Good Friday is the drama of the love by which our every day is sustained.