We have laws against polluting our rivers but not against polluting our minds.

We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves.

Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of Avila, Joseph Ratzinger, and Edith Stein-in all their intellectual rigor-as allies in the the struggle against this dismissive atheism.

Catholicism is a matter of the body and the senses as much as it is a matter of the mind, precisely because the Word became flesh.

For many people, the big feast of the year is Christmas, but for Christians, the truly great feast is Easter. Without Easter, without the Resurrection, we would not have the gift of salvation. Jesus had to rise from the dead or else he would have just been another failed Messiah and his birth would be a forgotten footnote of history.

The only thing particularly new about the "new atheism" is its nastiness.

The human race is one big dysfunctional family.