The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.

Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.

Big cities have a lot of 'younger brothers' who have left traditional parts of the world and their families for a more liberal lifestyle. But cities are filled to the gills with 'elder brothers' too.

Jesus cannot be just liked. His claims make us either kill him or crown him.

In the end, we love people into belief. We do not argue them into belief.

The best things that have been written, almost, are by Catholics during the counter Reformation: Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis de Sales, John of the Cross, St. Theresa of Бvila.....great stuff.

No one is exempt from trials and tribulations. In fact, this is often what happens to people God loves very much, for it is part of God’s often mysterious and good plan for turning us into something great.