The trust is a matter of love and faith is a matter of truth. The two together give you the guidance that you look for..

Love isn't blind. Love is reasonable. God is pure love, but He is also pure reason. If you separate reason from faith you'll end in violence. Either ….

There is the enormous corpus of Islamic law that is very rich. However, law is one rational exercise of reason. Philosophy is very different. Philoso….

The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human life from conception to….

The presumption that the law can tell us what natural institution is supposed to be is a formula for totalitarianism. There's not equality in a famil….

Religion doesn't start with a set of laws or rules and it doesn't start with a set of ideas. It starts with an encounter, with the living God and in ….

In our country [US] equality means your liberal and freedom means you're conservative. That tension is there and it can't be handled on its own terms….

The question about who God is is a very public question. We don't have the tools in this kind of political atmosphere to handle that, and maybe polit….

That question in marriage is mutual submission, really - the next verse goes on: "husbands love your wife as Christ loves the Church.".

God's is the causality at the level of our being, and therefore the roots of our freedom. Ours in causality is determinative of what kind of being we….

The fact that God knows everything does not mean that He is directly causing everything. He respects our freedom at our level. He makes it possible f….

If you're going to say you're Catholic, you inform your conscience so that you're activities will conform to what God is telling us through the Churc….

Law is a process. If there is equality of process for everybody, then that's our definition of justice. Whether or not what is done is right or wrong….

We [Americans] have secularized the public life of our country in such a way to say something is religious is something negative. Religion has now tu….

Christ didn't leave us a book of instructions; He left us a body, a family - a Church. If it were perfectly clear, there wouldn't be any freedom..

So, in every case if you really love someone there is an element of submission to them because you want what's best for them, and at times they're go….

From a Christian perspective, the answer to all of that is not power, as it is in the modern perspective. It's love. It's self-sacrifice. That's what….

God always wants what's best for us, just as you want what's best for someone you really love. You put them before you, and God does that too. God pu….

Faith is not a contract. Faith is surrender. If no other relationship in our experience is one of self-surrender, if it's all contractual, people won….

He [God] made us free, and He respects that. It is two different spheres of causality. Interdependent, though. It is not two boxes looking at one ano….

This is a real presence which includes every dimension of who Jesus is: body and blood, human soul and divine person. The consecrated Eucharistic spe….