That is our vocation: to convert the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and fully experienced.

The Church is the body of Christ fashioned by baptism & the Eucharist.

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

Your life is not going to be easy, and it should not be easy. It ought to be hard. It ought to be radical; it ought to be restless; it ought to lead you to places you'd rather not go.

People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.

Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation.

...the word that seems best to summarize the desire of the human heart is 'communion.' ...wherever we look it is communion that we seek.