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.

There's no way up but down.

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

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization.

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.

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

The human race is one big dysfunctional family.