Laughter is an intimation of the joy in which we are created, a sign of the abundance of delight in the origin of our being.

Every Catholic is at some point obliged to defend the flair his Church has for covering everything in gold.

On the sixth day of creation, God made the "beasts of the earth according to their kinds, and cattle, and everything that creepeth on the earth," and He saw that it was good. But the day's work was not done.

There are certain Bible passages, particularly in the Old Testament, that are disturbing.

Can I get practical about the prescription? I'll give you nine pieces of practical advice for saving your soul and Western Civilization.

In our relationship with Christ each of us must resolve one great problem.

One day a friend and I were discussing the fruitful relationship between faith and reason. He said that he held the Catholic faith because of, literally, "everything," or as I like to call it, The Everything.

The prayer I've probably spoke about most frequently is: "Thy will be done."

Jesus sent out the Twelve to battle dark spirits. He still empowers his church to do the same.

I say, it is a difficult and rare virtue, to mean what we say, to love without dissimulation, to think no evil, to bear no grudge, to be free from selfishness, to be innocent and straightforward.