There's an obvious investment in some media circles in the "narrative" of "the pope who's finally going to get with it."

Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.

In the Church the transformative power of the Eucharist is experienced through the dignified celebration of Holy Mass, and people are empowered for mission because of that.

The Church offers the medicine of the divine mercy so that healed souls can grasp the truth that will liberate them in the fullest meaning of human freedom.

Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy.

The world needs a pastor, whether it knows it or not.

The papacy is an impossible job. So the best thing Catholics can do for the pope is to pray for him.

Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences.

In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights issue, arguably the greatest civil rights issue of our time.

[Jesus Christ to Pope Francis] is the Lord with whom he speaks for hours every day in prayer. The Risen One who reached out, touched his life, and called him into mission.

The emphasis on the "peripheries" is also a distinctively "Franciscan" way of expressing the pope's respect for untutored popular piety - a respect, I might add, that was shared by St. John Paul II.

If you haven't arrived yet, keep driving, your destiny is waiting for you.

Chit impurity is due to the relative vision. When the vision becomes real (enlightened), purification of chit occurs.

If you don't have any feelings for Will Darcy, why are you blushing and fixing your hair?

I find that I get very excited about what my students are up to and that I get to be the hurdle they need to jump over.

We do need to make sure that we have an orderly, lawful immigration process.

New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time

A man's got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.

Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God.

Is your company so small you have to do everything for yourself? Wait until you're so big that you can't. That's worse.

I have a penchant for playing God's clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to call himself God's clown.