Today, the news is scandals, that is news, but the many children who don’t have food - that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.

Like Mary, may we nurture the light born within us at Christmas. May we carry it everywhere in our daily lives.

Children are to be welcomed, cherished, protected.

God shows up with surprises.

Your sins are great? Just tell the Lord: Forgive me, help me to get up again, change my heart!

Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples.

Are you angry with someone? Pray for that person. That is what Christian love is.