The liturgical year is the year that sets out to attune the life of the Christian to the life of Jesus, the Christ. It proposes, year after year, to immerse us over and over again into the sense and substance of the Christian life until, eventually we become what we say we are - followers of Jesus all the way to the heart of God

A hard heart makes for hard judgments; a compassionate heart understands the humanity of the one we presume to judge.

Hope is what sits by the window and waits for one more dawn, despite the fact that there isn't an ounce of proof in tonight's black, black sky that it can possible come.

We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is

Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil.

Try saying this silently to everyone and everything you see for thirty days and see what happens to your own soul: I wish you happiness now and whatever will bring happiness to you in the future.

Beauty scatters the seeds of hope in us.