The Editor's Favorite
Notes and "Quotes"

"I is a big sister.  You is a big mama."
Miss Adeline Norgaard, age 2
August 3rd, 2005


"As for being fair and balanced,
one should always be fair,
but balance understood as neutrality
is a formula for banality."
Richard John Neuhaus
From The Public Square in First Things, August/September 2005

"Our beliefs, our moral convictions, and our attitudes
are carried by very specific words and images.
Words, not ideas, bring into focus
with compactness and intensity
what is honored and cherished."
Robert Louis Wilkin
in First Things, August/September 2005

"The distinction between the innocent killed by abortion
and the guilty killed by execution
is not likely to persuade many people in a culture
that cannot bring itself to rescind
ts license of murder in the womb."
Joseph Bottum
in First Things, August/September 2005

"Truth inevitably appears
wherever people's consciousness
attains a certain maturity."
Joseph Ratzinger
in Truth and Tolerance, ©2003

"What is true and what is good
cannot in fact be separated one from another."
Joseph Raztinger
in Truth and Tolerance, ©2003

"If no one talks anymore about God and man,
about sin and grace, about death and eternal life,
then all the shouting and the noise is in vain."
Joseph Ratzinger
In Truth and Tolerance, ©2003


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