We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.

When we learn to move through suffering, rather than avoid it, then we greet it differently. We become willing to let it teach us. We even begin to see how God can use it for some larger end.

When we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible without being relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without being soft, and true witnesses without being manipulative.

The world is evil only when you become its slave.

Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.

The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.

Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction.