We need to mock false gods publicly.

The cross is Jesus going into the very lair of death. He goes to meet head-on that which frightens us the most. And what does He do? He battles it. He engages it. And finally he conquers it.

In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively superficial preoccupations.

Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization.

The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.

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.