But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of co….

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection..

The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is….

To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give than….

Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and arche….

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into….

Hence the importance of patience in the New Testament, which becomes the basic constituent of Christianity, more central even than humility: the powe….

Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite..

Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with….

Everything in Irenaeus is bathed in a warm and radiant joy, a wise and majestic gentleness. His words of struggle are hard as iron and crystal clear,….

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to b….

There will never be beings unloved by God, since God is absolute love..

We are not only interested in those aspects of the mystery of the Roman Catholic Church which set her apart from the other Christian communities, but….

The greatest tragedy in the history of Christianity was neither the Crusades nor the Reformation nor the Inquisition, but rather the split that opene….

Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character..

No one should think he can quickly dispose of questions posed here offhandedly. It was precisely because writers were in the habit during the time of….

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it. Our situation today shows that ….

Only in Christ are all things in communion. He is the point of convergence of all hearts and beings and therefore the bridge and the shortest way fro….

One can understand nothing of Christ without the mystery of the Trinity, nothing of the Church without faith in the divinity and humanity of Christ, ….

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

A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power..