There is a fairly widespread tendency found among Church leaders to speak as though our problem is sexual "abuse," not homosexuality.

One of the leading philosophers of our time says Western culture will have to be handed down outside the ivory towers and college lecture halls — and he has strong reason to believe that its promulgators will be successful. 

Unless we have been shocked to our depths at ourselves and the things we are capable of, as well as at the failings of humanity as a whole, we cannot possibly understand the full import of Advent.

The most telling evidence of our need to grow in love may be our omissions when an opportunity for a smaller gesture of love presents itself.

But one thing God will not overlook, because he cannot tolerate it — namely, a divided love.

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.

Now, one of these characteristics of a Christian spirit, springing from the three theological virtues, and then in turn defending and strengthening them, is that habit of waiting and watching, to which this season of the year especially invites us.

We are not at liberty to be at liberty, i.e., to be free of the burden of judgment.

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

It should not be surprising that Christ in his infinite divine love for people would find a way to come into them, and that this unity is accomplished by an act at once spiritual and physical.