Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin.

If you don’t behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, “I am.” We are ontological oxymorons.

The Catholic wisdom of the people… provides reasons for joy and humor even in the midst of a very hard life.

Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men.

Even as a man just recovering from illness walks only so far as he is obliged to go, with a slow and weary step, so the converted sinner journeys along as far as God commands...

The moment we care for anything deeply, the world – that is, all the other miscellaneous interests – becomes our enemy. Christians showed it when they talked of keeping one’s self “unspotted from the world;”...

Then a movement began among the people. They creaked to their feet, shuffled and fumbled up to the front, kneeling on the floor, and she saw little Thomas at the beginning of the row. The...

Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which...

The idea of formulated ‘rights … comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson … but from the canon law of the Catholic Church.

[I]t seemed to me now that a Catholic church was the right companion for all these horrors. Didn’t Catholicism deal with blood and resurrected flesh on a daily basis? Wasn’t it expert in superstition? I...

Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now chosen her bosom as dwelling-place.

The Irish people didn’t get on that well with each other either. They hated the Catholics, was the main issue, as I see. You can’t blame them for that. If I understand correctly, Catholics do...

If you have so many defects, why are you surprised to find defects in others?

It is not brains or intelligence that is needed to cope with the problems with Plato and Aristotle and all of their successors to the present have failed to confront. What is needed is a...

At the bottom of the ladder is Catholicism, and at the top is Science

For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished...

Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the...

Antisemitism is unique among religious hatreds. It is a racist conspiracy theory fashioned for the needs of messianic and brutal rulers, as dictators from the Tsars to the Islamists via the Nazis have shown. Many...

Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.

1868. Sin is a personal act. Moreover, we have a responsibility for the sins committed by others when we cooperate in them:by participating directly and voluntarily in them;by ordering, advising, praising, or approving them;by not...

Much water has flown under Tiber’s bridges, carrying away splendour and mystery from Rome, since the pontificate of Pius XII. The essentials, I know, remain firmly entrenched and I find the post-Conciliar Mass simpler and...

The Pope would have an easier job than the President of the United States in adopting a change of course. He has no Congress alongside him as a legislative body nor a Supreme Court as...

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory … we are all kings in exile.

That’s not a lucky thing, Cecil,” said Teresa, “it’s a sacred thing.” “What’s the difference?” Cecil asked. Teresa smiled. “Roughly this,” she said. “A thing is magic if you get what you want through it;...

Our favorite games were killing.Our favorite books were death.It had been beaten into us:God is love.Not the parched face and gnarledcapes across a stick body; jitteringin the nude sky, we couldn’t seetrying to touch usfor...

Churchmen sought to introduce rational trial procedures and sophisticated legal principles in place of the superstition-based trial by ordeal that had characterized the Germanic legal order.

Beware of formulas. If there’s a God, he’s not a God of formulas.

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

…we can never attain a maximum love of God with only a minimum knowledge of God

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is...

If all the bones of all the victims of the Catholic Church could be gathered together, a monument higher than all the pyramids would rise

An institution is right or it is wrong. One that cannot accept dinosaur bones is one that cannot be trusted on more important matters.

The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.

When Benedict dies, he will have the pleasure of standing before whatever furious God he believes in, to answer for how it was that he knew for undeniable fact that one — if not dozens...

It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone...

1951. Law is a rule of conduct enacted by competent authority for the sake of the common good. The moral law presupposes the rational order, established among creatures for their good and to serve their...

You and I are part of the colony of heaven. Right now, we may reside here on earth, but our passport indicates that our citizenship is in heaven. We are on the earth, but not...

Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.

The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.

If we who self-designate ourselves with terms like “Catholic,” “Orthodox,” “Protestant,” “Evangelical,” “Charismatic,” “Pentecostal” and others would fully surrender ourselves to The Holy Spirit, we could stop focusing on the secondary words we use to...

Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new...

It was Francisco de Vitoria, a Catholic priest and professor, who earned the title of father of international law.

I know one thing you don’t. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn’t teach you that at school.’Rose didn’t answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her....

Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believers the lifelong awareness of their being children, and therefore of having to ask and...

The language in which we are speaking is his before it is mine. How different are the words HOME, CHRIST, ALE, MASTER, on his lips and on mine! I cannot speak or write these words...

He was alone in his wonderment,amoung creatures incapable of wonder–for them it was enough to exist and go their way.