The dynamically orthodox orders of religious women will continue to grow, and the dying orders, which long ago opted for the lightest of Catholic Lite, will continue to die.

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.

Love goes through all times

Find something you love and go for it with all your heart. No excuses, no plan B. Never settle for anything less than you know you can do.It will be hard, but I promise it will be worth it.

The church is the primary arena in which we learn that glory does not consist in what we do for God but in what God does for us.

We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.

When a man is truly a man, it makes a woman comfortable to truly be a woman.

In an ideal world, I'd love to work on something that is on par with 'Lost' or better than 'Lost.

I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.

The human child – so much cannier at times than the stupefyingly ponderous adult.

It's hard to pull apart empathy from compassion. What is really clear is that we innately care for other people at least to some extent.

But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.