Even If A Unity Of Faith Is

We No Longer Dare To Believe In Beauty And We Make Of It A Mere Appearance In Order The More Easily To Dispose Of It.

Even If A Unity Of Faith Is Not Possible, A Unity Of Love Is.

The Greatest Tragedy In The History Of Christianity Was Neither The Crusades Nor The Reformation Nor The Inquisition, But Rather The Split That Opened Up Between Theology And Spirituality At The End Of The Middle Ages.

What The Father Gives Is The Capacity To Be A Self, Freedom, And Thus Autonomy, But An Autonomy Which Can Be Understood Only As A Surrender Of Self To The Other.

But The Saints Are Never The Kind Of Killjoy Spinster Aunts Who Go In For Faultfinding And Lack All Sense Of Humor. (nor Should The Karl Barth Who So Loved And Understood Mozart Be Regarded As Such.)for Humor Is A Mysterious But Unmistakable Charism Inseparable From Catholic Faith, And Neither The "progressives" Nor The "integralists" Seem To Possess It - The Latter Even Less Than The Former.