We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers.

As the local churches gradually open again, one is reminded of the persistence of Benjamin Stoddert Ewell, president of the College of William and Mary, ringing the school bell during seven years of closure after the Civil War.

To rewrite history is eventually to resent history altogether, to live in the present without past or future.

The French theoretical physicist Pierre Duhem (1861-1916) was amazingly prolific and contributed much to hydrodynamics and thermodynamics, but his most important influence may be his philosophy and history of science. 

Clichés should not be ignored just because they are clichés. 

This week we remember and re-enact the most important events in the entire history of the world.

I have a rule never to begin a paragraph with a first-person pronoun.

The news changes so quickly day by day, even hour by hour, that it’s hard to keep up, much less know, really, what to think about all of this.

"Focusing on eleven urgent issues in the life of the Church today, Cardinal Müller has written the best kind of 'simple' book: simple as in clear, concise, appealing, and powerful." - Most Rev. Charles Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Philadelphia

During pregnancy, some cells from the unborn child migrate through the placenta into the mother’s bloodstream.