Where Orthodoxy Is Optional, Orthodoxy Will Sooner

Progress Without The Reasoned Freedom To Think And Act Is Regression To Slavery.

Disguise Is Central To God's Way Of Dealing With Us Human Beings. Not Because God Is Playing Games With Us But Because The God Who Is Beyond Our Knowing Makes Himself Known In The Disguise Of What We Can Know. The Christian Word For This Is Revelation, And The Ultimate Revelation Came By Incarnation. ... God Is The Master Of Disguises, In Order That We Might See.

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.

In The Gay (catholic) Community, It Would Seem, The Maxim Is: Love The Sin And Love The Sinner, But Hate Anyone Who Calls It A Sin Or Him A Sinner.

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