Many, many people hereabouts are not becoming Christians for one reason only: there is nobody to make them Christians.” (Saint Francis Xavier)

The first thing we have to accept is, ever and again, the reality of an enduring Advent. If we do that, we shall begin...

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerors. (Hilaire Belloc, +1953)

There has arisen in our time a most singular fancy: the fancy that when things go very wrong we need a practical man. It...

This is why I make this strong and insistent appeal—not, I trust, untimely—that faith and philosophy recover the profound unity which allows them to...

His empire includes not only Catholic nations, not only baptized persons who, though of right belonging to the Church, have been led astray by...

Viva Cristo Rey! (The final words of priest and martyr, Miguel Pro, +1927)

Sing to him a new song, sing to him with joyful melody. Every one of us tries to discover how to sing to God....

Delight in him from whom you have received everything that delights you. But in that I do not include sin, for sin is the...

Just as in one man there is one soul and one body, yet many members; even so the Catholic Church is one body, having...