"I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says…" - Socrates, in Plato's Phaedrus

The gifted Norwegian writer Sigrid Undset, by any standard, was a most extraordinary person.

"A time may come soon when … there will be need of valor without renown, for none shall remember the deeds that are done in the last defense of our homes.

"Do not grumble," St. Benedict tells his monks.

"To any ladies who wish to get married, I suggest: Marry a man who can fast." - A Benedictine. 

Monsignor Ronald Knox was a pillar of the 20th-century English Catholic revival.

A sense of shame is nothing of which to be ashamed. 

Without God, our sense of human dignity quickly erodes. 

Alice von Hildebrand (1923-2022) left an incredible Catholic intellectual and spiritual legacy that promoted the privileged dignity of women and motherhood.

What now seems a long time ago (it was when I was deciding to become a Catholic), there was a controversy over Mother (now Saint) Teresa.