Occupation: Priest Birth: 1959
I don't think we'll understand Advent correctly until we see it as a preparation for a revolution..
For many people, the big feast of the year is Christmas, but for Christians, the truly great feast is Easter. Without Easter, without the Resurrectio….
God is a placebo for your own mortality..
Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness..
When God went to the cross he made even death itself a place of hope..
The human race is one big dysfunctional family..
There's no way up but down..
Catholicism is a matter of the body and the senses as much as it is a matter of the mind, precisely because the Word became flesh..
Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other..
The great danger of the new media is that it seems to relish the superficial. There has been an ethos within the Church for many years to pursue an a….
The slightest cooperation with God's grace can provoke a massive spiritual change..
Hans Urs von Balthasar maintained that the best evangelistic strategy is to capture people with the beautiful, then enchant them with the good, and t….
Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth..
Christians have no business moping around..
In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively ….
We have laws against polluting our rivers but not against polluting our minds..
The long nights that Pier Giorgio Frassati spent on his knees in front of the Blessed Sacrament had something to do with the long days spent in servi….
Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated..
Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], T….
A story can sing the truth and not just tell it..
By far the most dangerous people in the world are optimists (those who believe that all can be made well here below). If you think all can be made we….