Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization.

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 human race is one big dysfunctional family.

Christians have no business moping around.

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

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.

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