The disgruntled, like the poor, we will always have with us. 

Christ does not stand before us at one time as a man and another time as God.

We are not so much against the world as alienated from it because in Christ we have gone beyond it.

In a letter Sigmund Freud wrote to his friend Edoardo Weiss on April 12, 1933, he reminisced about a visit to the Roman church of San Pietro in Vincoli: 

On April 29, 1951, Father Thomas Love, SJ, baptized me in the Church of Sts. Philip and James, near Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. 

The worst anxiety of all... is the fear of not being loved.

St. Thomas More's "A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation" is a classic of prison literature particulary pertinent to our current spiritual challenges with the coronavirus.

The term "parochial" is frequently used in a condescending sense, but no one today can get away with thinking that to be parochial is to be isolated from reality. 

By the time the blessing was over, all of us were in tears, struck by the profundity of what we had just witnessed. 

Last Tuesday — the first day of no public Masses in our diocese — I was reminded of this scene from Evelyn Waugh's novel "Brideshead Revisited".