The leper complained to him, how could he believe in the love of God?

Faith and reason are under siege from an idolatry of feelings.

I had left school; I was not yet fifteen.

Take care: he invites you to lose your soul in order to gain it back.

He can only speak in proportion to our desire to listen.

Young people are idealistic and want clarity, the cardinal said. 

"The Church stands and falls with the liturgy." - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger

Most people who want to know God and who are outside the Church have just one thing that is precious to them...

The second man the Lord encounters raises objections that are undoubtedly reasonable.

The Gospel account of the healing of the blind man Bartimaeus is a kind of microcosm of how growth in the life of faith takes place.