The institutional Church is the most economical and efficient means by which the Christian reality can be made accessible, at least minimally, to masses of people. –James Hitchcock, The Decline and Fall of Radical Catholicism,…
My heroes showed me a source for strength far greater than myself.
Learn to Pivot Love the Ones You’re Given Embrace Mercy Learn to Grieve Find Your Heart Celebrate Life Unconditionally Beware of False Compassion Begin Anew –Lila Rose, Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change…
By the first quarter of the twenty-first century, what is driving many Western converts into the Church is not resistance to Catholic teaching, but desired fidelity to it. –Mary Eberstadt, 1968 IS SO OVER
So we plod along, more or less in the dark, more or less humiliated by the dreary quality of our prayer, our worship by turns inane and trivial, our sense of the holy vitiated, distracted,…
After the Holocaust, no further doubt was possible. Isaac said so explicitly: the work he wanted to fashion would also be a surviving testimony to a murdered people, a vanished culture, and a dying language. …
What does a Chinese typewriter look like? –Wisława Szymborska, Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces, 44
In Poor Folk we have the first timid and hesitant expression of the great theme of theodicy, the questioning of the wisdom of the world created by God—thus a questioning of God himself—that will ultimately…
I find [René Girard’s] ideas have enormous explanatory power not only for the world we see around us – but the world we find within us. People may question his reading of archaic societies or…
Patience attains the goal. –Saint Teresa of Ávila, quoted in Eknath Easwaran, God Makes the Rivers to Flow: Passages for Meditation, 1982