The pastor should always be pure in thought ... no impurity ought to pollute him who has undertaken the office of wiping away the...

Let Christians follow the example of Christ who worked as a craftsman; let them be proud of the opportunity to carry out their earthly...

I am not the Christ; I have been sent before him to prepare his way. He must increase, and I must decrease. (Saint John...

Late have I loved you, O Beauty, ever ancient, ever new - late have I loved you! (Saint Augustine, +430)

And now thou didst ‘stretch forth thy hand from above’ and didst draw up my soul out of that profound darkness, because my mother,...

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. (Hilaire Belloc, +1953)

If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides...

Therefore, when the Virgin of virgins was led forth by God and her Son, the King of kings, amid the company of exulting angels...

There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by...

Therefore, breathe I a prayer for a moment, at this, the lone shrine of the past, Whose face was the sun of the ages, whose...