The Spirit of Unity

“Debating the possibility of magisterial error only makes sense within the framework of commitment in faith to the reality that the Church is the temple of the Holy Spirit.”

“[T]he Holy Spirit is both Christ’s forerunner and his paranymph, the one who brings the bride to the beloved spouse and allows her to give herself to him ‘who did not prefer anything to us.’”

“The pilgrim Church must move toward full universalism whereby all nations and cultures may adore and give glory to the triune God.”

“[T]he sacramental principle is a vision of the ecstatic nature of finite reality, a belief that matter can be more than itself, that nature as a whole can function as a parable and instrument of the spiritual.”

“[F]or the author(s) of the Song, the human reality of erotic love is itself intrinsically cosmological and theological in its very human reality.”

“[T]he wise man . . . would indeed lose some of his freedom if he wanted to choose everything consciously, for human nature and our routine habits free us to pursue wider goals without being stuck in the humdrum decisions of every day.”

“It is the proper function of theology to move back and forth, like the angels on Jacob’s ladder, between eternity and time, and to weave ever-new bonds between them.”