Everything we see in a Catholic church is there for a single purpose: to tell a love story.

I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

People of faith should be able to have confidence in their right to freely express and live their beliefs.

In the pulpit, were supposed to present the teaching with all of its unvarnished clarity, but when you step out of the pulpit, you have to meet people where they are and try to walk with them.

There are serious problems that have to do with the environment, that have to do with the way in which we live and consume.

What the church is really concerned about is what endures.

The great American tradition is one of pluralism, not exclusive secularism. The strength of our country is reflected in the contributions that we all make to the common good.

True Happiness doesn't come from Prosperity, Pleasure, and Power, but from PEACE.

We should keep learning so long as we have grace and breathe.

The Sudanese government has been playing games with the world, with the Africa Union, in particular, have been playing for time in order to conclude its mission of ethnic cleansing in the Sudan.

God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of human beings.

When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.

Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.

Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.

You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you?" Elayne asked. "I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more.

From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.

We wrote a song, while sitting on a trampoline & we loved it so much that we ended up recording it as a duet