In everyday speech, when people use the noun "beauty" or the adjective "beautiful," they use it to mean something they think is fine or wonderful — almost a synonym for the word "swell."

On this feast of Saint Benedict, the sixth-century monk whose spiritual sons saved civilization, it is a small sadness to realize that we may have read the last of the beautiful theology and biblical wisdom of the man who took his name, Joseph Ratzinger, Benedict XVI.

Crosses are the great means which God employs to destroy self-love in us and to increase and purify his love within us.

I'm going to argue for the existence of God from the premise that moral good and evil really exist: they are not merely a matter of personal taste, not merely substitutes for "I like" and "I don't like".

The West is suffering for its loss of faith. Unless we rediscover religion, our civilization is in peril.

When he sees your earnestness in seeking him, then he appears and manifests himself to you.

"How I long for a poor Church for the poor!"

The idea that being good is enough is the most persistent and pernicious heresy within Catholicism.

God himself, by virtue of his grace, prepares me to believe.

Has there ever been a moment in American life when the humanities were cherished less, and has there ever been a moment in American life when the humanities were needed more?