“This silence is indeed unsettling, especially in our own culture where sounds (noise?) surround us like permanent membrane. It leaves us addicts – unable to live without it.”

“Each time we find excuses to hide from the cross, Good Friday is put on hold. And Easter never comes.”

“After all this we are obliged by the command of God to be of good cheer, and have supernatural hope in God’s care.”

“God’s mercy waits for the slightest nod from the sinner. But there must be the nod.”

“As soon as any soul seeks another path other than the one set out by the Catholic Church, he soon finds himself in a spiral of deceptions.”

“Stranger still are the victors. It is children holding crosses high, kids who are shaming their priests not in disrespect but for the sake of God.”

“The veil covering the head of the religious is equally a cover for man in escaping the pelting rain of our culture’s lies.”

“The Priesthood and the Holy Eucharist are bound in as intimate a union as you and your body. “

“It is truly business as usual. A razzle-dazzle PR solution where there should be a rigorous top-to-bottom reassertion of earthshaking orthodoxy.”

“The Berrigans changed the priest from servant of Christ to servant of The Age.”

“Our straitened circumstances beg for a return to the Rosary prayed by Catholics in common.”

“We can say with certainty and with no fear of dishonoring the dead, that all he did to the Catholic Church in America is something for which he must now render account before Divine Justice.”

“Journalism’s favorite bullseye is the Catholic Church, and their most prized journalist is the Catholic anti-Catholic.”

“Contrast this supernatural feast of love of God through love of neighbor with the shrill iconoclasm of the nuns of the LCWR.”

“We live in days where the ground is constantly shifting beneath us. Every certitude is questioned, and metaphysical shelters are few, most having long been blown away by the hostile winds of secularism.”

“In matters of strict faith and morals, a Catholic must give unwavering assent. In matters of discipline, a Catholic must cede absolute obedience, but can legitimately pose questions as to expediency and effectiveness.”

“While [The Jesuit’s] charism was to be Mother Church’s Fifth Column, St. Ignatius recognized they would fail this high vocation without the cultivation of surpassing sanctity and razor-sharp intellects.”

“Every Catholic Church is a book. In fact, so is every building made by man. They tell a story.”

“Modernism is an ideology of the old seeking eagerly to justify both its vice and its ennui. Orthodoxy is the adventure of the young who are hungry for the adventure which is ad maiorem Dei gloriam.”

“For buildings define man, they place on display what a man knows about himself. Buildings are truth in stone.”