Bless Me Father, I Ate A Lizard.

To Minimize Suffering And To Maximize Security Were Natural And Proper Ends Of Society And Caesar. But Then They Became The Only Ends, Somehow, And The Only Basis Of Law - A Perversion. Inevitably, Then, In Seeking Only Them, We Found Only Their Opposites: Maximum Suffering And Minimum Security.

When Holy Church Occasionally Hinted That She Still Considered Her Authority To Be Supreme Over All Nations And Superior To The Authority Of States, Men In These Times Tended To Snicker.

The Trouble With Being A Priest Was That You Eventually Had To Take The Advice You Gave To Others.

Fire, Loveliest Of The Four Elements Of The World, And Yet An Element Too In Hell. While It Burned Adoringly In The Core Of The Temple, It Had Also Scorched The Life From A City, This Night, And Spewed Its Venom Over The Land. How Strange Of God To Speak From A Burning Bush, And Of Man To Make A Symbol Of Heaven Into A Symbol Of Hell.

One Should Be Embarrassed To Speak Of God In The Third Person.