"What I enjoy the most about these psalms is the lack of violence found in them. Instead, the experience of darkness is relegated to the consciousness of doubt, fear, ignorance and illusion, mostly within oneself."...
"There is a song of thanksgiving in my heart, as the Lord has once more answered a special prayer."...
"The Bishops’ Synod on the Youth presents an opportunity for the Church to confess her guilt, ask forgiveness, and begin to make genuine reparation for her sins."...
"No Catholic who pays even the slightest attention to our culture can be naïve about the scandal of clerical abuse in our world."...
"A majority of bishops in Germany have recently proposed intercommunion as a pastoral response to religiously mixed families."...
"I am here on serious business today. I am here to warn you all of a great threat to us. A threat to our way of life. A treat to the ease and comfort in which we live. A threat to the personal security that we so often take for granted."...
"When the Congregation for the Causes of Saints recommends to the Pope a decree of heroic virtue, this means that a Servant of God lived a life of profound union with God and fidelity to Church teaching."...
"This man, who could not read, write, or play guitar, spent his final months of prison singing and providing music at my weekly service."...
". . . the Church’s teaching contained in the encyclical is really about love: the great love of God, to which He calls us to imitate and share in. That is why Humanae Vitae could also be the most influential document for our times."...
"God’s hand had long been on my heart. My love of God became deeper over the years and my desire to serve stronger. "...
