One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.

It wasn't until Castro marched triumphantly into Cuba that you might say the whole thing grew into a Marxist revolution.

What we would like to do is change the world...by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world.

The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.

If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.

The final word is love.

Everything a baptized person does each day should be directly or indirectly related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.