"It doesn’t bother me. The dying is my next career."

"Romero’s aversion to politics earned him the appointment as Archbishop."

"The world does not care about us. All they are interested in is the stones of ancient Palmyra."

"We write this obituary in hope that it may provide an insight to those that need to change their behavior one night at a time."

"I hear a lot about why the Benedict Option is important, and a lot about what the Benedict Option isn’t, but very little that I can grasp with any kind of firmness about what the blasted thing is in the first place."

"We are living through a jubilee of internet forgivness."

"There is incontrovertible evidence that at the Saturday meeting in the pope’s private library on May 16, Francis actually said to Abbas: 'You are a bit of an angel of peace.'”

"Teaching about virginity amounts to teaching against sanctification."

"Every single person in leadership at Facebook could be absolutely committed to the future of journalism and there would still be reasons for caution."

"Standing behind Dylan, all dressed in ratty black suits, were three unknown 20-somethings — and they were killing it."

"The dollar is history's measure of the distance between power and virtue."

"It’s made by Henderson, the same people who make my favorite baby square, so you know it’s reliable."

"Why can’t we have just one action movie about a lone man taking on other men? When will we finally get a Taken sequel that isn’t just Liam Neeson reading from Our Bodies Ourselves?"

Steve Thorngate

The Century managing editor is also a church musician and songwriter.

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