Liber locorum communium

"like French politicians in this respect, what they gain in the cabinet they lose in the field."      Walter Sterne on pulpit de...

"'your conscience is not a law: — No, God and reason made the law, and have placed conscience within you to determine; — not, like ...

"'Whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the bett...

"the West and the East. . . . manifestly designate the same state-of-thing under wordings that merely sound mutually exclusive. 'Th...

"According to a saying of the Fathers, Sacred Scripture is written principally in the Church's heart rather than in documents and r...

Source "A tiny little son is born for us today, and he is called Mighty God, alleluia."      Third antiphon (to Ps 149), Mor...

"6. We cannot avoid repetition of the past’s mistakes "This is an area where I have always sought to be prudent, looking at previo...