Budapest’s real offence was not what it did, but that it did it first and said so loudly.

The Cristo de Mena, after being beaten by the mob, was burned along with other religious images; only part of one leg and one foot of the Christ were spared.

When we look at our struggles, our anxieties, and our loneliness, we must remember that Christ has already descended into that darkness.

If the end desired by God was the redemption of man in such a way as to bring man into full union with Himself—that is, to make us saints in loving union with Him—then there could have been no other way.