“Yes, it is only sin that is catastrophic because only sin can take happiness from us—the happiness Who is God. Death cannot. Suffering cannot. Isolation cannot. Loss of loved ones cannot. Certainly 9/11 cannot. “

“Only an army of Edith Steins can confront the looming darkness. But “cheery religion” can’t produce Edith Steins. Only the Old Faith....can do that. The Old Faith, unafraid of the Cross. “

“When St. Paul thunders, “O Death, where is thy sting?” (I Cor 15:55), he admitted that it was a sting that death inflicts. Modernity turns it into a tickle.”

“Rich men are the ones with full souls.  They are to be found in the barrios as well as on Rodeo Drive.  Happiness is not a matter of erasing income inequality..“

“The family and home is where the human race begins. This is the womb where whole and wholesome men and women are created. Man is taught here that there is infinitely more to man than man. “

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

“Only Christ calls men to the priesthood, but His voice passes through Christ-like priests—and not merely through their voices, but through their actions, bearing, and dress.”

“Abortion did not only cheapen the life of the unborn in the womb, but the lives of us all.”

“As we have seen many times in the past two thousand years, it is only the Roman Catholic Church which can face such derangement and right it.”

“For the people who are cheering Obergefell never sleep. Their eyes are trained upon us all. “

“Living men with nearly dead souls gasping for, but never quite able to breathe, the air of God.”

“Unless we work each day to make of ourselves strangers in this strange exile, then we shall ever be strangers to Heaven.”

“Man craves the Absolute, and satisfies that craving in absolutes. It cannot be suppressed, even if its expressions are depraved.”

“No more important words are uttered than the words of Holy Mass. Shouldn’t the Church strive mightily to keep them right?”

“Governor Cuomo’s madness is not an isolated madness; it permeates the culture.”

“However, Our Lady is the most perfect example of ‘active participation’. She attends the First Mass, Our Lord’s suffering and death on Calvary. Look at what she is doing.”

“Finding oneself has replaced finding God’s Holy will; listening to the Holy Spirit has been corrupted into carefully listening to your inner voice.”

“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.”