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.

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.

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

The holiness of God is like a white light: pure, simple, complete. But when that light shines, as it were, through the prisms of individual human lives, it breaks into an infinite variety of colors... each one reveals a unique dimension of the divine holiness.

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

Christians have no business moping around.

Turn your car into a monastery.