I became a Catholic against my will..

Every weakness contains within itself a strength..

A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face..

Christianity, to be effective in Japan, must change..

Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies. Sin is for one man to walk brutally over the life of an….

Over the years I have forged intimate familial ties with these characters, who are reflections of a portion of myself. Consequently, even a character….

The smell of death was thick in the city of Vara?asi. And in Tokyo as well. And yet the birds blissfully sang their songs..

True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men..

Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and co….