The Internal Revenue Service would not be impressed by someone who paid taxes not in the formal way, but in a spiritual sense.

In a global village and a global Church where ethnic identities are dissolving, cultural Catholicism is also disintegrating.

According to legend, the line represents the blow with which St. Michael sent the devil to hell.

When we say "God made you like that", we must not mean that God does not regard the disorders we suffer as disorders.

The exotic concept of spontaneous generation was taken seriously by astute thinkers for a long time before the invention of microbiology. 

Baseball is a foretaste of the Kingdom of God precisely because it doesn't work by clock-time, like football, soccer, basketball, lacrosse, and hockey.

When the "rubber" of belief meets the "road" of decision, a choice has to be made.

It used to be said that the priest "made" holy water; he did not simply bless it. 

Confusion is bad. It's bad for the individual soul, and it's bad for the health of a society. 

Preach the gospel at all times. The use of words is necessary.