The Guardian,[is] one of the most consistently anti-Catholic newspapers in the world.

Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.

In the Church the transformative power of the Eucharist is experienced through the dignified celebration of Holy Mass, and people are empowered for mission because of that.

The Church offers the medicine of the divine mercy so that healed souls can grasp the truth that will liberate them in the fullest meaning of human freedom.

Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy.

The world needs a pastor, whether it knows it or not.

The papacy is an impossible job. So the best thing Catholics can do for the pope is to pray for him.

Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences.

In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights issue, arguably the greatest civil rights issue of our time.

[Jesus Christ to Pope Francis] is the Lord with whom he speaks for hours every day in prayer. The Risen One who reached out, touched his life, and called him into mission.

The emphasis on the "peripheries" is also a distinctively "Franciscan" way of expressing the pope's respect for untutored popular piety - a respect, I might add, that was shared by St. John Paul II.

The writer identifies the thought behind every written word.

But easy's like, who cares? Easy's like, how much is easy going to get you?

I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.

I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.

Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

Miss the audience's heart as a filmmaker, and the only wallet that gets hit will be your own. That's because the heart is always the first target in story telling.

Curiosity is the other side of caution.

I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art.

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.

I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.