It is a paradox – good coming out of bad, something not uncommon in the Christian experience

Saint Isaac Jogues and the entire communion of saints still intercedes for us and shows the way to Christ through strong faith and zeal for personal holiness.

Don’t make a half-assed nod at prayer and then say it can’t change anything.

The modern project of limitless human expansion, both outside of ourselves and within ourselves, is fundamentally a rejection of that reality which we did not create and thus cannot really control.

The Catechism, today, shows more about the distortions of Catholic intellectualism than a failure by the Church to teach the truth.

Francis's teaching on capital punishment represents a discontinuity in the life of the Church. But one that highlights a deeper continuity.

What good happens in spite of my shortcomings, because of my nature, isn't an accident, but a participation in God's life, and in his design for fatherhood.

Our model for sifting faithfulness is broken. What makes Christian faith attractive is the claim it lays to things beyond our rational horizons.

Christian conscience is the active acceptance of the fruits of true freedom, formed by careful reflection, and deployed in every instance of mundane life.

An epistemological crisis of faith has to do with our struggle to acknowledge that ideas about the structure of faith are worth believing.

The prick of the inevitable “perhaps” in our mind is an indirect perception of the Son of God; the Unconquered Sun who knows us, and whose knowledge of us causes us to be able to know at all.

We should recall and speak first of “God’s wisdom, mysterious, hidden, which God predetermined before the ages for our glory."