In The Absence Of Truth, Power Is

My Hope That The Church Will Emerge As A Strong Leader In Society Is Just That A Hope. What I Described In The Catholic Moment Is Not A Prophecy But The Outline Of A Possibility. There Are No Guarantees That My Hopes Expressed In The Catholic Moment Will Ever Be Realised.

I Do Believe That Those Who Compare The Religious Right To The Nazis Have Fallen Victim To Polemical Heat Prostration.

In Legal Parlance, That Is Called 'the Rational Person Test,' ... That's Where Somebody Else Says, 'even Though We Have No Idea What This Person Would Want In This Circumstance In Which They Cannot Themselves Tell Us What They Want, A 'rational' Person - Meaning, Myself - In That Circumstance Would Want To Die.' So You Move Very Quickly From So-called Voluntary Euthanasia To Involuntary Euthanasia. These Legal And Medical Developments Are Not Simply Hypothetical They're In The Courts Right Now.

We Shall Not Weary, We Shall Not Rest, As We Stand Guard At The Entrance Gates And The Exit Gates Of Life, And At Every Step Along Way Of Life, Bearing Witness In Word And Deed To The Dignity Of The Human Person-of Every Human Person.

Politics Is Chiefly A Function Of Culture, At The Heart Of Culture Is Morality, And At The Heart Of Morality Is Religion.