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.

For many people, the big feast of the year is Christmas, but for Christians, the truly great feast is Easter. Without Easter, without the Resurrection, we would not have the gift of salvation. Jesus had to rise from the dead or else he would have just been another failed Messiah and his birth would be a forgotten footnote of history.

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

The holiness of God is like a white light: pure, simple, complete. But when that light shines, as it were, through the prisms of individual human lives, it breaks into an infinite variety of colors... each one reveals a unique dimension of the divine holiness.

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

The Bible constantly warns against a merely mercenary relationship with God - a friendship of convenience or self-interest. We should not love God simply because doing so will produce many consolations in our life. We must enter a true relationship, were we fall in love not with His benefits, but with Him.

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