Sublime

his fundamental conviction has remained constant: the horrors of late twentieth-century life, whether Nazi, communist, racist, nationalist, or utilitarian in expression, are the products of defective concepts of the human person.

the mission of converting the world while putting the great human aspiration to freedom on a firmer spiritual and moral foundation.

Plus ratio quam vis: “Reason rather than force.”

modus vivendi

his soul had been formed by a different experience, an experience of the Church as the bearer of the most potent vision of human possibility on offer.

Catholic faith embraces and illuminates all of life, and everything the believer does