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

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

For paradise we long. For perfection we were made...This longing is the source of the hunger and dissatisfaction that mark our lives...This longing makes our loves and friendships possible, and so very unsatisfactory. The hunger is for...nothing less than perfect communion with the...one in whom all the fragments of our scattered existence come together...we must not stifle this longing. It is a holy dissatisfaction. Such dissatisfaction is not a sickness to be healed, but the seed of a promise to be fulfilled...The only death to fear is the death of settling for something less.

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

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

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.

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