We are not so much against the world as alienated from it because in Christ we have gone beyond it.

In a letter Sigmund Freud wrote to his friend Edoardo Weiss on April 12, 1933, he reminisced about a visit to the Roman church of San Pietro in Vincoli: 

Servant of God Blandina Segale,  American missionary, sister, and Western Frontier figure once dubbed "the nun with spurs," befriended Billy the Kid and, it is said, saved many from being lynched.

We must pray incessantly for the gift of perseverance.

Many liberal writers have trouble explaining the attraction that young people have for religion, especially in its more traditional forms.

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. 

Re-reading the first chapter of St Paul’s Letter to the Romans recently, it occurred to me that Paul was offering, among other things, a kind of sociological theory of the three stages of society's moral degeneration.

God seems at times to parry off our attempts to understand him, resisting our effort to take hold of him in a moment's fragile thought.

"As I was saying..."  That, more or less, is how Saint Athanasius began his homily each time he returned from exile.

Friends, in today's Gospel Jesus says, "I am the way and the truth and the life."