"What is your name, young man?" said the archbishop.

 "My friends, we must keep on believing that unearned suffering is redemptive."

Socialism in the guise of benevolence exploits the naïve. 

Most of our Founding Fathers were not deeply informed about Catholicism, but they appreciated moral integrity when they saw it.

Such boldness must have shocked many diplomats present.

Another report in the unfolding story of this pontificate: 

There have even been bishops so impatient with the subtleties that make theology logical that they have turned two thousand years of Christianity upside down by announcing that the death penalty is absolutely immoral.

Bishop Miler Magrath (Maolmhuire Mag Raith) of Ireland (1523-1622) wrote his own epitaph for the tomb in Cashel in which he was finally laid in his one-hundredth year.

While experience cautions theologians against the quicksand of politics, politicians not infrequently rush in to theological matters where angels fear to tread.

Four Lessons from the 20th century.