Basil Hume

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.

I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.