“The philosopher might speculate, but the theologian must submit to learn.” St. John Henry Newman’s Oxford...

“Be sure that wherever our lot is cast we may and must aim at the perfect life.” Written over 400 years ago, Introduction to the Devout Life is still one of the most popular books for...

“This present feast is one of the greater of the whole year... Because there are three grades of sanctity which we celebrate in this...

“You thought perhaps when learned Campion dies, His pen must cease, his sugared tongue be still; But you forgot how loud his death it...

“For we don’t invent marriage... any more than we invent human language. It is part of the creation of humanity and if we’re lucky we find it available to us and can enter into it. If we...

“Love is the light—and in the end, the only light—that can always illuminate a world grown dim and give us the courage needed to keep living and working. Love is possible, and we are able...

“The philosopher aspires towards a divine principle; the Christian, towards a Divine Agent.” St. John Henry Newman’s Oxford Sermons, delivered...

“They are the class of feelings we should have—yes, have in an intense degree—if we literally had the sight of Almighty God; therefore they are the class of feelings which we shall have,...

“This is love in its most radical form. By contemplating the pierced side of Christ, we can understand the starting-point of this Encyclical Letter: ‘God is love’. It is there...

My oldest friend, mine from the hour When first I drew my breath; My faithful friend, that shall be mine, Unfailing, till my...