In The Absence Of Truth, Power Is

My Eyes Are Wide Open To The Conflicts Within The Church, But I Don't Think You Can Call It Schism.

Optimism Is A Matter Optics, Of Seeing What You Want To See And Not Seeing What You Don't Want To See. Hope, On The Other Hand, Is A Christian Virtue. It Is The Unblinking Acknowledgment Of All That Militates Against Hope, And The Unrelenting Refusal To Despair. We Have Not The Right To Despair, And, Finally, We Have Not The Reason To Despair

Every Day Of The Year Is A Good Day To Think More Deeply About Good Friday, For Good Friday Is The Drama Of The Love By Which Our Every Day Is Sustained.

Determined Secularists View These As Residual Inconsistencies That They Have Not Yet Go Around To Extirpating And That May Not Be Worth Bothering About... Form The Secularist Perspective It May Be That The Essential Battles Have Been Won And Excessive Zeal In Pressing A Final Mopping-up Operation Might Only Excited Further Public Hostility.

For Paradise We Long. For Perfection We Were Made...this Longing Is The Source Of The Hunger And Dissatisfaction That Mark Our Lives...this Longing Makes Our Loves And Friendships Possible, And So Very Unsatisfactory. The Hunger Is For...nothing Less Than Perfect Communion With The...one In Whom All The Fragments Of Our Scattered Existence Come Together...we Must Not Stifle This Longing. It Is A Holy Dissatisfaction. Such Dissatisfaction Is Not A Sickness To Be Healed, But The Seed Of A Promise To Be Fulfilled...the Only Death To Fear Is The Death Of Settling For Something Less.