When God went to the cross he made even death itself a place of hope.

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.

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

Turn your car into a monastery.

Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of Avila, Joseph Ratzinger, and Edith Stein-in all their intellectual rigor-as allies in the the struggle against this dismissive atheism.

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