St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.

The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.

Spiritual formation in a Christian tradition answers a specific human question: 'What kind of person am I going to be?' It is the process of establishing the character of Christ in the person. That's all it is.

We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement and, most importantly, we are protected by God.

I have great faith in lasers, but no one’s putting one near my eye."

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.