Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.

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.

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

Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.

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.

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization.

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