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

The long nights that Pier Giorgio Frassati spent on his knees in front of the Blessed Sacrament had something to do with the long days spent in service of the poor.

The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.

The great danger of the new media is that it seems to relish the superficial. There has been an ethos within the Church for many years to pursue an accommodationist strategy in regards to the culture, and this has resulted in a public presentation of the Faith that is often nebulous or "dumbed down."

The slightest cooperation with God's grace can provoke a massive spiritual change.

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

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization.