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.

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.

A story can sing the truth and not just tell it.

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

Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you're not getting it.

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