The absence of Jesus is the mode of his presence.

God suffers with you!

The New Testament, that is, was made by the Church; the Church was not made by the New Testament. That is why, speaking generally, Catholics differ from Protestants in the importance given to the authority of the Bible on the one hand, and to the authority of the Church on the other. Therefore, Catholics more than Protestants would tend to say that the community has authority over its normative literature.

The God who makes the promise keeps the promise.

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. – Joyce Carol Oates.

Real generosity toward the future,” as Camus famously put it, “lies in giving all to the present.

Experience is a flow from event to consequence, with moral events defined by human choice.

There is no such thing as history undistorted. Decisive transformations of meaning occurred, and are occurring still.

For Christian faith, the death of God is not a question of his disappearance. On the contrary, it is one of the places where He is most fully present. Jesus is not Man standing in for God. He is a sign that God is incarnate in human frailty and futility.

The indictment of the vice president's chief of staff for perjury and obstruction of justice is an occasion to consider just how damaging the long public career of Richard Cheney has been to the United States.