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

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

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.

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.

For many people, the big feast of the year is Christmas, but for Christians, the truly great feast is Easter. Without Easter, without the Resurrection, we would not have the gift of salvation. Jesus had to rise from the dead or else he would have just been another failed Messiah and his birth would be a forgotten footnote of history.

Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.

Your faith will grow only in the measure that you give it away.