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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.