Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.

Malone had been raised by a lady both Irish and Catholic, in a good bourgeois home in which careless table manners were a sin, much less this storm in his heart.

If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.

I come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family.

Mr Kingsley begins then by exclaiming- ‘O the chicanery, the wholesale fraud, the vile hypocrisy, the conscience-killing tyranny of Rome! We have not far to seek for an evidence of it. There’s Father Newman to...

When we consider that so few generations had passed since thechurch left off disemboweling innocent men before the eyes of theirfamilies, burning old women alive in public squares, and torturingscholars to the point of madness...

I stressed to my team that they had to play 32 minutes. Against a good team like [St. Pete Catholic], you can’t have breakdowns. Usually the third quarter is when we don’t play well, but...

… love for our neighbours does not die the minute we enter heaven, it intensifies.

All love tends to become like that which it loves. God loved man; therefore He became man. For nine months her own body was the natural Eucharist, in which God shared communion with human life,...

Perhaps a past of bingeing, restricting, or purging comes back to haunt you from time to time. Maybe you have to fight hard battles against vanity, gluttony, and shame. But with God’s saving power, every...

PRAISE FOR ‘THE JOURNEY HOME’Many saints are known and praised by all. We pray to them in litanies and celebrate their feast days. But the vast majority of holy men and women live heroic lives...

God Is, Lucifer is a devil, and there is a Hell.

I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or...

You will all be assailed, my dear friends, by the very real temptation to believe that you have been forsaken by God – that your priesthood is in vain, and that the weight of mortal...

But freedom starts with honesty. We aren’t doing ourselves any favors by defining our- selves as good and others as bad. Let’s just agree that we all need help, that we are all in this...

[God] disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness.

He does not call those who are worthy, but those whom He will.

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

I perceived or thought of the Light of God and in it suspended one small mote (or millions of motes to only one of which was my small mind directed), glittering white because of the...

A person’s faith goes at its own pace. The trouble with church is the service. A service is conducted for a mass audience. Just when I start to like the hymn, everyone plops down to...

[Taken from a BBC documentary]Tariq was born in Lahore, now in Pakistan, then part of British-ruled India, in 1943. A Catholic school education did nothing to shake his life-long atheism, which he shared with his...

It did matter to get out of bed. There were webs to weave. Strings to grasp. Packages to deliver. Conversations to start. Thoughts to be expressed. Sams to slam into. Oceans to swim. And sad...

In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.

It is not the sanctuary that is in danger; it is civilization. It is not infallibility that may go down; it is personal rights. It is not the Eucharist that may pass away; it is...

You are a beloved child of God. But please remember this, too: You are human. You cannot expect to eat perfectly, look perfect, or be perfect. When you stumble, pick yourself up, even if you...

God withholds Himself from no one who perseveres.

The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has…

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

But the truth is that there is no more conscious inconsistency between the humility of a Christian and the rapacity of a Christian than there is between the humility of a lover and the rapacity...

At the heart of Galatians 2 is not an abstract individualized salvation, but a common meal. Paul does not want the Galatians to wait until they have agreed on all doctrinal arguments before they can...

If you complain to someone, you assume that it’s someone who really cares about you.

The world in which we now live is a world whose outlook is so distorted that we absolutize what is relative (money-making, power, success) and relativize what is absolute (truth, moral values, and God).

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

Every time I think about that girl, my mind commits a sin.

Sir, I cannot sing. I have no formal training. I do not read music. And I know this is a church – but I play a mean harmonica.

1862 …although we can judge that an act is in itself a grave offense, we must entrust judgment of persons to the justice and mercy of God.

I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will die a martyr in the public square. His successor will pick up the shards of a ruined society and...

The gates of Hell are terrible to behold, are they not?

We knew this game would have a playoff feel with Central Catholic being undefeated and all the section championships they’ve won.

We’re not protecting our daughters if we forbid makeup, eschew fashionable hairstyles, or wear dowdy clothes. The feminine form is beautiful. Sure, we don’t want to hide behind makeup or wear immodest clothes to draw...

I would write a thousand foolish things that one might be to the point, if only it might make us praise God more.

A desperate plea to the Trinityis not something you can justapologize for in the morning-Drunk Dialing the Divine

Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.

Online affiliation with good causes is good netiquette. Stand for something!

An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong.

It’s definitely a key week. We definitely need a few wins in the Catholic League. We took a couple hard blows with Loyola and Rice.

In the Code of Canon Law, it states clearly: ‘A person who is conscious of grave sin is not to celebrate Mass or receive the body of the Lord without previous sacramental confession.’ I haven’t...

One thing is certain: When the time has come, nothing which is man made will subsist. One day, all human accomplishments will be reduced to a pile of ashes. But every single child to whom...

There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom.

Outside of Italy, Catholics and churchmen have a very kind of mystical view of the Vatican and especially the conclave,