I remember him — back when he was just Father Ladaria — as an extremely gentle but intellectually powerful man.

An epistemological crisis of faith has to do with our struggle to acknowledge that ideas about the structure of faith are worth believing.

The prick of the inevitable “perhaps” in our mind is an indirect perception of the Son of God; the Unconquered Sun who knows us, and whose knowledge of us causes us to be able to know at all.