The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady….

You cannot be in love with love..

It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse..

Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints..

There is no effective rational answer to the challenge: "But give me a reason why I should love someone who does not deserve it." Love is the highest….

The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. We pass our lives trying to fill the ….

Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?.

All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life..

Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul..

If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes..

The most striking feature if this map is the stark fat of the Two Roads. There is the road that leads to Life, and there is the road that leads to De….

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 ….

Now suppose both death and hell were utterly defeated. Suppose the fight was fixed. Suppose God took you on a crystal ball trip into your future an….

It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil..

Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive.

God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discre….

The self is like a baseball. Throw it back to the divine pitcher who pitched it to you in the first place, and the game of love goes on. Hold it, and….

We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays..

Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a li….

The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood..

If God is the Creator of all things and evil is a thing, then God is the Creator of evil and He is to be blamed for its existence. No, evil is not a ….