In Memoriam Benedict XVI David L Schindler Roch Kereszty

“Only a belief in a truth that transcends all forms of tribalism and herd mentality can be a sufficient foil to totalitarian ideologies and practices.”

“[E]cclesial and sacramental communio is not just something that can be created by a particular community, assembled at a particular place and at a particular time, but it is the gift of a greater reality Christ entrusted to the universal Church.”

“Christ is a living principle of unity, a living Word whose performative character is experienced above all in the liturgy of the Church.”

“[T]he principle that allows cultures to remain open to exchange with other cultures is the degree to which they are open to the truth.”

“For a Christian, it is only in trans-forming that one inherits properly, because each thing—even our suffering under mechanistic meaninglessness—becomes itself only in receiving the form of Christ.”

“[T]he greatest threat to academic freedom today comes from within and not outside the university: it comes from the theological-ontological blindness of the modern disciplines themselves.”

“Fr. Roch’s gentle manner was a living witness to Bernard’s distinctively Cistercian model of unifying the intellective and affective paths to knowing Christ and serving his Church.”

“Only God can teach the soul the love of God, and he does it by pouring into the soul his own love so that the soul may love with the very love of God.”

“Only a charity that builds up in harmony with the architecture of faith allows the Church to offer fruitful hope to the people of God in our troubled times.”