Catholic Daily Brief

"From examining his own soul, any one of us can learn five general truths about all human beings."

"God made us out of nothing - nothing at all - and it well for us occasionally to recall that fact."

"This is, indeed, a century of revolutions. But it need not go down in history as a period when revolutions were entirely economic and political."

"Our exterior world today is in desperate straits, but the inner world of man is far from hopeless."

Sheen's thoughts on humility, egotism, and joy

"'Great works' (of art) and 'good works' (of charity) had better also be Good Work. Let choirs sing well or not at all. Otherwise we merely confirm the majority in their conviction that the world of …

"It will be infallible judgment. If it is favorable we shall have no fear, if unfavorable, no hope, that it is wrong. We shall not only believe, we shall know, know beyond doubt in every fibre of our…

The theological implications of extraterrestrial life

"Can we believe that God ever really modifies His action in response to the suggestions of men?"

"How is it right, or even psychologically possible, for creatures who are every moment advancing either to heaven or to hell, to spend any fraction of the little time allowed them in this world on su…

The Seventh Word from the Cross: "Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit"

The Sixth Word from the Cross: "It is finished"

The Fifth Word from the Cross: "I thirst"

The Fourth Word from the Cross: "My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?"

Monica's death; Augustine's grief and prayers for her soul

The Third Word from the Cross: "Mother behold thy son; son, behold thy Mother"

The Second Word from the Cross: "This day you will be with me in Paradise"

The First Word from the Cross: "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do."

"The ancient man approached God (or even the gods) as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock."

Augustine speaks of the joy of his conversion, and he abandons his teaching post; his friends both die baptized; he reads the Psalms and Isaiah; he is baptized along with his son, Adeodatus; he is in…