In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.

No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.

We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.

A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

When everything that matters can be bought and sold, when commitments can be broken because they are no longer to our advantage, when shopping becomes salvation and advertising slogans become our litany, when our worth is measured by how much we earn and spend, then the market is destroying the very virtues on which in the long run it depends.