The human race is one big dysfunctional family.

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

Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.

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 have laws against polluting our rivers but not against polluting our minds.

The great danger of the new media is that it seems to relish the superficial. There has been an ethos within the Church for many years to pursue an accommodationist strategy in regards to the culture, and this has resulted in a public presentation of the Faith that is often nebulous or "dumbed down."

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.