To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

The good of the whole of Creation, the world and all its creatures together, is never a consideration because it is never thought of; our culture now simply lacks the means for thinking of it.

The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is.

What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?

We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have neglected to understand that we cannot be free if our food and its sources are controlled by someone else. The condition of the passive consumer of food is not a democratic condition. One reason to eat responsibly is to live free. (pg. 323, The Pleasures of Eating)

The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.

The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.