Doesn’t get enough credit for what an effective messenger he is. His words! If you have any interest in the Catholic Church, in Truth, in the synergy between faith and reason, he is someone to read regularly . But in his person, too. He is more dynamic, more gentle, and more beautifully faithful and humble than he ever gets credit for in the media, and even among Catholics.
Kathryn Jean Lopez is editor-at-large of National Review Online .
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