For Albert Einstein, "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."

The legend of King Robert the Bruce, exiled from Scotland in a cave off the Irish coast in 1306, resembles a similar story in the Bible about King David when he was a boy.

Our Lord's admonition that much will be required of those to whom much has been given, applies most vividly to us.

The Feast of the Holy Trinity follows Pentecost because it is only by the inspiration of the Third Person of the Trinity, who leads into all truth, that the mystery of the Trinity can be known.

In what ways do you understand us to be living in a "post-Christian world?"

The amiable classicist, John Bird Sumner, was the Protestant archbishop of Canterbury from 1848 to 1862.

Ever since I first read the Letters of Saint Ignatius of Antioch in the 1950s, one passage from his Letter to the Ephesians has particularly affected me: "It is better to keep silence and be than to talk and not to be."

It is a wise policy, issuing from experience, and one hopes not from cynicism, to distrust email messages that begin by saying that the writer is "excited to share" something.

There will be many things we do not understand about the Church, but one thing we must understand.

Recently, a well-known liberal political commentator died.