We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

God draws straight with crooked lines.

The seminaries must face the fact that they are not turning out well-trained professional clergy. They must realize that preaching is creative work and that some element of creativity should be required as a condition for ordination.

I don't think Jesus was an exclusivist. He said, and we believe, that He is the unique representation of God in the world. But that doesn't mean this is the only way God can work.

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?