"genuine continence and virginity are rare and costly achievements - admirable and really extraordinary; the real thin…"

"Once again the tide of Carmelite spitrituality is drawing me, like a current, and, yet again, I sense its dangerous c…"

"The close affinity between sexual Eros and deceit is very startling - as in infatuation, infidelity and jealousy: " Q…"

"I've just finished reading Shakespeare's Sonnets, that is, I've read and understood them for the first time. One pass…"

"That wild Irish novel (Blackcock's Feather, Maurice Walsh), a wonderful Elizabethan cloak and dagger story, has start…"

"Isn't the very fact that convents exist dazzling evidence enough of the presence of the Spirit, unsatisfactory and od…"

"Goethe, whose letters I've been reading very intensively during the past few weeks, is always stressing Verträglichke…"

"Even read in such broken bits Origen is real food and drink. You can feel it being absorbed, right away, into your ve…"

"one's twentieth birthday. That day opened the door to a wider life: I reached out to grasp reality. But in fact it wa…"

"There's no redder rag for our modern, progressive Catholics than a certain religious approach to sex and Eros ranging…"