“Love is not some homogenized virtue, one size fitting all. Its legitimate expressions fan out like a rainbow, and its array of lights is dictated by truth.”

“Catholics must begin to lean their heads upon the wisdom of St. Thomas, as he often leaned his head on the tabernacle as he wrote.”

“If the ideologues truly looked at the poor, they would not see poor men, but simply men.”

“When you love seriously, you don’t wince at the serious things necessary to protect the people and values you love.”

“The priest is hero in the tradition of Odysseus and El Cid.  Men seek him for both light and strength and he supplies both in abundance.”

“But this greeting card was a stealth attack: a spiritual 9-11.”

“Amidst the dark clouds of crisis that surround Mother Church, it is well to take notice of God’s rays of hope.”

“Ultimately obligations are those kinds of acts which are owed to the truth, and ultimately to God, the First Truth.”

“Toleration cedes ground to the enemy, and he begins his next assault on higher ground than he did before. “

“Under the umbrella of ‘worship space,’ they stretched terms used by the Church beyond comprehension. “

“In the end, romance on earth leads to the final Romance of Heaven.”

“This saint named the serpent: Modernism.”

“Holy Church understands that an intimate ontological bond exists between the Holy Eucharist and the Holy Priesthood: an eclipse in appreciation for the one inevitably leads to a decline in interest in the other.”

“Good Friday is the start of a new beginning.”

“Neglect of Confession is a silent spiritual killer.”

“Yes, we must always be wary of the ugliest temptation: wanting heaven on earth. Happiness without a price. Christ without the Cross.”

“For unless we surrender the heights of the parapets of our pride from which we reign, we shall never enjoy the reign of Christ.”

“Not only does the supernatural radiate from the hearts of mothers, but their hearts are the cradle of the natural world.”

“Inequality will always be the flip side of freedom.”

“A New Evangelization requires new men and women. Only the effusions of grace in the Divine Liturgy, unencumbered by ambiguous settings, can produce them.”