Scripture starts with the particular and then universalizes it. You are called to love your concrete individual neighbor and then to realize that every individual is your neighbor. The point is not to destroy concrete neighborhood in a fit of universalism but to expand the local neighborhood and embrace the universal neighborhood.

Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.

Money can buy everything money can buy, which is just a lot of stuff.

It is the modern feminists who are the real male chauvinists, lusting for reproductive freedom (sexual irresponsibility) like playboys and demanding empowerment, that is, envying and imitating not only males, but male fools, judging inner worth by outer performance, sacrificing being for doing, finding their identity in their worldly careers, not in their inner essence, in their physical and spiritual wombs and motherhoods. This is what Karl Stern called "the flight from woman."

Peace is a mark of the Holy Spirit.

In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left

We can and should investigate and learn from the wisdom in other religions.