Signs of the Times  

      "IDOLATRY IS COMMITTED, NOT MERELY BY SETTING UP FALSE GODS, BUT ALSO SETTING UP FALSE DEVILS; BY MAKING MEN AFRAID OF WAR OR ALCOHOL, OR ECONOMIC LAW, WHEN THEY SHOULD BE AFRAID OF SPIRITUAL CORRUPTION AND COWARDICE."                                      G.K.Chesterton


      "NO ONE CAN BE, AT THE SAME TIME, A SINCERE CATHOLIC AND A TRUE SOCIALIST."                                                                Pope Pius XI


       "WHAT IS AGAINST TRUTH CANNOT BE JUST."     St. Augustine


     "WHATEVER A MAN SEEKS, HONORS, OR EXALTS MORE THAN GOD, THAT IS THE GOD OF HIS IDOLATRY."                                  Archbishop Ullathorne


      "INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY, FREED FROM ALL BONDS AND ALL LAWS, ALL OBJECTIVE AND SOCIAL VALUES, IS IN REALITY ONLY A DEATH-DEALING ANARCHY."                                                                  Pope Pius XIII


       "ACCUMULATING KNOWLEDGE IS A FORM OF AVARICE AND LENDS ITSELF TO ANOTHER VERSION OF THE MIDAS STORY...MAN [IS] SO AVID FOR KNOWLEDGE THAT EVERYTHING THAT HE TOUCHES TURNS TO FACTS; HIS FAITH BECOMES THEOLOGY; HIS LOVE BECOMES LECHERY; HIS WISDOM BECOMES LECHERY; HIS WISDOM BECOMES SCIENCE; PURSIUING MEANING, HE IGNORES TRUTH."                                                Malcolm Muggeridge


      "NOW, TELL ME WHETHER, WHEN YOU ENTER CHURCH TO HER MASS, YOU THOROUGHLY WELL CONSIDER THAT YOU ARE GING UP AS IT WERE TO CALVARY, TO BE PRESENT AT THE DEATH OF THE REDEEMER...WICKEDNESS IS HIDEOUS AT ANY TIME AND IN ANY PLACE; BUT SINS COMMITTED DURING THE TIME OF MASS, AND BEFORE THE ALTAR, DRAW DOWN AFTER THEM THE CURSE OF GOD."                                               St. Leonard-Port Maurice


     "PAGANISM IS AS OLD AS HUMAN HISTORY.  IN ONE SENENCE, PAGANISM IS A CULTURE OF UNTRUTH."                                               Fr. J. Hardon, S.J.


     "THAT THE STATE MUST BE SEPARATED FROM THE CHURCH IS A THESIS ABSOLUTELY FALSE, A MOST PERNICIOUS ERROR."   Pope St. Pius X


     "THE TRUTH DOES NOT CHANGE ACCORDING TO OUR ABILITY TO STOMACH IT."                                                                                     Flannery O'Connor


   [Feastday of St. Therese of Lisieux -- Oct. 1]


    "Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts, neither intelligence, nor talents.  He cherishes simplicity."                                    St. Therese


        "Our Lord does not come down from heaven everyday to lie in a golden ciborium.  He comes to find another heaven which is infinitely dearer to Him--the heaven of our souls, created in His Image, the living temples of the Adorable Trinity."      St. Therese

    "You alone, O Jesus, could satisfy a soul that needed to love even to the infinite."
                                                                                                         St. Therese

    "God chose the foolish of the world to shame the wise, and God chose the weak of the world to shame the strong."                                                1 Cor.1:27

  {In a society that idolizes the surface of youth while forcing its children into artificial adulthood, St. Therese might seem foolishly childish, but in fact she teaches the real wisdom of the child; trustful willingness to be led, taught, nd riased to true maturity according to God's plan rather than her own...]