Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.
The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists.
The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist
The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution.
We put great confidence in the Holy Rosary for the healing of evils which afflict our times.
The proposition that the principal articles of the Apostles' Creed did not have the same meaning for the Christians of the earliest times as they have for Christians of our time is hereby condemned and proscribed as erroneous.
It is impossible to approve in Catholic publications of a style inspired by unsound novelty which seems to deride the piety of the faithful and dwells on the introduction of a new order of Christian life, on new directions of the Church, on new aspirations of the modern soul, on a new vocation of the clergy, on a new Christian civilisation.
One of the things I've been taught by Native American elders is the importance of patience, of waiting to do things when the time is right. As an Onondaga friend put it to me, "you can't pick berries until the berries are ripe. "
Art and society was a lot more subject to sexism 50 years ago than it is now. Since that period, there have been plenty of very good female painters, 2006 Turner Prize-winner Tomma Abts among them. How much history needs to pass before an artist is called 'great'? That is the real question.
When Friday Night Lights finished, I cried for a day. I have a problem.
If you invite someone into your front room you can't be surprised when there are suddenly people outside your windows with cameras.