‘Give your evidence,’ said the King. ‘Shan’t,’ said the cook. —Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland ✠     ✠ ✠ ...

The Pope has laid a princely feast Upon the Church’s board: In files each cardinal, bishop, priest— The chosen of the Lord. No expe...

[Saint] Francis wanted to call the outcast, ready to revolt, to be part of the people of God. If the flock was to be gathered again, the o...

‘Trample! Trample! It is to be trampled on by you that I am here.’ … I, too, stood on the sacred image. For a moment this foot was on his f...

‘Isn’t it a fact that, having more or less made up your mind to a spot of celibacy you are eagerly peopling the cloister with bogies? If y...