My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but ….

Whatever else the religious Right may be, it is a bonanza for its opponents... Reports of the great terror that is upon us are raising millions of do….

We shall not weary, we shall not rest, as we stand guard at the entrance gates and the exit gates of life, and at every step along way of life, beari….

Disguise is central to God's way of dealing with us human beings. Not because God is playing games with us but because the God who is beyond our know….

If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter….

Every day of the year is a good day to think more deeply about Good Friday, for Good Friday is the drama of the love by which our every day is sustai….

One would like to believe that people who think of themselves as devout Christians would also behave in a manner that is in according with Christian ….

Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery..

Genuine tolerance does not mean ignoring differences as if differences made no difference. Genuine tolerance means engaging differences within a bond….

I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration..

In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town..

Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of f….

Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being.….

All my life I have prayed to God that I should remain religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically liberal and economically pragmatic..

Determined secularists view these as residual inconsistencies that they have not yet go around to extirpating and that may not be worth bothering abo….

If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion..

My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism..

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion..

One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism..

Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed..

For paradise we long. For perfection we were made...This longing is the source of the hunger and dissatisfaction that mark our lives...This longing m….