The selfie is perhaps the defining cultural artifact of our time. 

Father Rutler is a teacher, not an entertainer, though he often entertains to teach. 

An excerpt (the first three pages) of "The Wit and Wisdom of Father George Rutler".

Someone — having reached the age of forgetfulness, I forget who — said to me a few weeks ago that the first sign of socialism is a shortage of toilet paper. 

It is not necessary for a government to be thoroughgoingly despotic for us to live in a totalitarian condition in which we are afraid to say some things and — what is even worse — are required to say others.

Adolescence is the age neither of good taste nor of wisdom, which no doubt is why some politicians want to lower the voting age even further.

The word gentleman has fallen into disrepute, along with the word man. 

You have to work at it not to notice similarities between the postmodern world and that very old, Old Testament story about the Tower of Babel.  (Gen. 11:1-9) 

As he was leaving, one of the patients, Raphael Simi, asked him: "Will you be my friend?"