Of its very nature, a conversion is an experience of divine mercy.

Whoever pretends to reform the Church with…the same means used to reform temporal society — not only will he fail in his undertaking, but he will infallibly end by finding himself outside the Church.

First of all, it must be emphasized that nothing is more personal and intimate than [the Sacrament of Confession] in which the sinner stands alone before God with his sin, repentance and trust. 

My childhood experience of anxiety neurosis has conditioned my attitude towards psychological suffering during my whole subsequent life.

In the wilderness Christ experienced the temptation that faces everyone today. 

An intelligent woman who has studied iconography with another intelligent woman (who happens to be my wife) was recently in Florence. 

The early Christians give us the signs of the Christian life: broken bread and lives poured out.

The season of humiliation, which precedes Easter, lasts for forty days, in memory of our Lord's long fast in the wilderness. . . .

Religion, they say, is an escape, but it is the only escape that they do not try.

By surrender to God I mean giving oneself up to God, to be transformed in him.