Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book.” — St. John Bosco

The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.

The Catholic wisdom of the people... provides reasons for joy and humor even in the midst of a very hard life.

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!

It was Francisco de Vitoria, a Catholic priest and professor, who earned the title of father of international law.

Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our awakening world.

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

He was alone in his wonderment,amoung creatures incapable of wonder--for them it was enough to exist and go their way.

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.

At St. Bernardine’s the nuns never liked me. Especially Sister Mary Bitch-and-a-Half. I think that was her biblical name.

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

When you're a Catholic kid, the nuns teach you that when something is annoying you, you "offer it up", as a sacrificial gift.