At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.

If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.

Down through the centuries, the Church has carefully preserved, protected, and defended its Marian teachings, because to give them up would be to give up the gospel.

To go to Mass is to go to Heaven.

I was steeped in the understanding that if 'something is Roman [Catholic], it must be wrong.

We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.

To deny the force of divine judgment, then, is to make God less than God, and to make us less than His children. For every father must discipline His children, and paternal discipline is itself a mercy, a fatherly expression of love.