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

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.

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.

We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves.

The great danger of the new media is that it seems to relish the superficial. There has been an ethos within the Church for many years to pursue an accommodationist strategy in regards to the culture, and this has resulted in a public presentation of the Faith that is often nebulous or "dumbed down."

Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.

The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.