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

Christ's invitation to the priesthood is an invitation to a way of life that is athletic in its intensity and heroic in its form.

I don't think we'll understand Advent correctly until we see it as a preparation for a revolution.

We need to mock false gods publicly.

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.

Bob Dylan said, "The executioner's face is always well-hidden". That's the problem: The cross pulls that hood off.

If the Word truly became flesh, then God had not only a mother, but also a grandmother, cousins, great-aunts, and weird uncles. If the Word truly dwelt among us, then he was part of a family that, like most, was fairly dysfunctional, a mix of the good and bad, the saintly and the sinful, the glorious and the not so glorious. And this is such good news for us.