So is all said at once. Virtue is the link of all perfections, the center of all the felicities. She makes a person prudent, discreet, sagacious, cautious, wise, courageous, thoughtful, trustworthy, happy, honored, truthful, and…
I repeat, you will be able to tell them by their fruits. –The Gospel according to Matthew, 7:20
She was a very good teacher. Of course, it wasn’t like you had classes. But you’d sit for hours, you know, opening the mail, and talking. She was just a wonderful conversationalist, so in that…
If I had to fix a date for my conversion, as distinct from reception into the Church, I think I should put it during that winter, and should say that St. Francis converted me, but…
Could this really be socialism—with the labor camps of Kolyma, with the horrors of collectivization, with the cannibalism and the millions of deaths during the famine? Yes, there were times when a very different understanding…
“The Bible has always been restricted in Communist countries because it is an agent of change.” –A Protestant pastor in Cuba, cited in Robert Royal, The Martyrs of the New Millennium:The Global Persecution of Christians…
In Les Misérables, Jean Valjean saves at least nine people: two children in Montreuil-sur-Mer from a fire; Fauchelevent from being crushed to death by a cart; Cosette from her troubled life with the Thénardiers; Fantine…
For justice cannot exist where all the best things in life are held by the worse citizens; nor can anyone be happy whee property is limited to a few, since those few are always uneasy…
“You see, Alyoshechka,” Grushenka turned to him, laughing nervously, “I’m boasting to Rakitka that I gave an onion, but I’m not boasting to you, I’ll tell you about it for a different reason. It’s just…
Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven. –The Gospel according to St. Luke, 6:37.