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

Hans Urs von Balthasar maintained that the best evangelistic strategy is to capture people with the beautiful, then enchant them with the good, and then lead them to the true.

We have laws against polluting our rivers but not against polluting our minds.

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.

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

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