The human race is one big dysfunctional family.

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.

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

In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively superficial preoccupations.

By far the most dangerous people in the world are optimists (those who believe that all can be made well here below). If you think all can be made well in this world, then you will go to any extreme to make it happen. There is the story of the 20th century. As Lenin said, "You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs".

I don't think we'll understand Advent correctly until we see it as a preparation for a revolution.

The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.