The modern age is often seen as an awakening of reason from its slumbers, humanity's enlightenment after an age of darkness.

God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself or herself in love, which is a sincere gift of self.

BENEDICT XVI, ANGELUS, Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, Sunday, 22 May 2005

Today, even in this modern age marked by anxiety and uncertainty, we live the event of the resurrection, which changed the face of our life and changed the history of humanity.

A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.

An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.

Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.