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Beauty, then, is not mere decoration, but rather an essential element of the liturgical action, since it is an attribute of God himself and his revela...more

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Thus [the altar] brings heaven into the community assembled on earth, or rather it takes the community beyond itself into the communion of saints of a...more

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Creation exists to be a place for the covenant that God wants to make with man. The goal of creation is the covenant, the love story of God and man.

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Thus there is need of deeper reflection. Before entering into an examination of individual texts, we must direct our attention to the whole picture, t...more

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The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness

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The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the v...more

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The intellectual climate of the 1970s, for which the 1950s had already paved the way, contributed to this. A theory was even finally developed at that...more

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Jesus assumes, as it were, the fall of man, lets himself into man's fallenness, prays to the Father out of the lowest depths of human dereliction and ...more