In his spiritual autobiography, "Apologia pro Vita Sua", Saint John Henry Newman informs us: “When I was fifteen (in the autumn of 1816), a great change of thought took place in me.

Many have said that the Pew study reflects a catechetical failure. I fear the opposite: it reflects a certain kind of catechetical success.

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"Without a doubt, the most comprehensive book available on the life and thought of Pope Benedict XVI!" — Fr. Donald Calloway, M.I.C.

A bishop condescendingly asked John Henry Newman, "Who are the laity?" To which the great saint, and, one hopes, future Doctor of the Church, replied that the Church would look foolish without them.

A mark of first-rate thinkers is their ability to make complex theories understandable. 

When I use the language of "morals," my students are self-proclaimed relativists.

'The crisis of the Church is at its core a crisis of the clergy.'

The public intellectual sees the story as a warning about idolizing the intellect (rationalism) and pursuing heaven on earth (utopia).

Ralph Waldo Emerson had moments more perceptive than his vague religiosity: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."