Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.

The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.

I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.

This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for the good, the true and the beautiful.

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.

Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.

The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.

Explore. Search. Seek.

Science is a river with two sources, the practical source and the theoretical source.

On one side of accountability is courage, on the other is freedom.

My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.

It's impossible to feel good about yourself if you are doing things that you aren't proud of. . . . It's essential that you . . . [do] things you can respect and admire.

When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.

The conversation topic in my head is not what role I should play; it is whether I am going to play at all.

For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.

Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.

Most election analysts in the U.S. habitually confuse the sound of money talking with the voice of the people.