To each claimant that he is a messenger sent from God, reason says, "What record was there before you were born that you were coming?" 

"What is the man doing?  Is he mad?  Does he want the world to fall about our ears?"

Christianity began, not with a pious story or "narrative," but with the reality of transformed lives.

The Catholic impact on Western law can hardly be overestimated.

Kraków, Father de Souza observed, was the city where the twentieth century happened in a singular way.

Are there parallels between the French Revolution and contemporary Church-State conflicts?

No matter how bad it gets, Dawson insisted that the mission of Catholics is to nourish and preserve the tradition of sacred culture.

It's remarkably unfashionable to study — or even talk about — the West these days.

The true history of the world is written by God, and so we should not be surprised if it is quite different from histories written by men.

Henry Ford is often quoted as saying, "History is bunk."