Peace and Homo Viator

“[T]he great danger in the modern situation, the encounter with modernity, lies in losing one’s sense of what man is.”

“We are talking a great deal about liberalism, but very little about the possibility that by remaining within liberal discourse, we are unwittingly reinforcing our own marginalization.”

“The attempt to vanquish religion with the rational secular state is in fact a new form of religion.”

“[T]he Cross of Christ has left a crater at the center of history, an inflection of sacrificial love in relation to which everything before and after is properly understood.”

“To talk of two covenants simultaneously in force, one for Christians in Jesus, the other for Jews in Moses, is to reject both Jesus and Moses."

“If Odysseus can navigate the dangers of the world by being bound to the mast, how much more awesome is it that in reality Christ wrested all of humanity from the danger of death by being bound to the Cross.”

“Is childhood an intrinsic perfection , to such an extent that growing out of it is not only a gain (which it quite evidently is), but at the same time an irretrievable (?) loss ?”

“The idea of the natural order as empty facticity and raw material for technological progress [has] gained a surprising foothold in the mind of many Catholics, who should have known better.”

“In conversation he said that, ultimately, he had only one wish: that God is God —even if he felt that, with the psalmist, we can also occasionally remind God that he ought to be God.”

“[E]ach human being stands in the center of his world. But as person he comes out of this center and sees himself so to speak from the outside.”

“The strictly public character of the Mass is concealed if it is lumped together with the other elements in the pseudo-public sphere of sensationalism.”