When we give help to the poor, we are not doing the work of aid agencies 'in a Christian way'. Those are good, it is a decent thing to do - aid work is good and quite human - but it is not Christian poverty, which St. Paul desires of us and preaches to us. Christian poverty is that I give of my own, and not of that which is left over - I give even that, which I need for myself, to the poor person, because I know that he enriches me. Why does the poor person enrich me? Because Jesus Himself told us that He is in the poor person.

The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information.

Jesus speaks in the silence of the mystery of the Eucharist and reminds us each time that following him means going out of ourselves and making our lives not something we 'possess,' but a gift to him and to others.

We can observe the Fourth Commandment by loving visits to our aging grandparents

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

It is not possible to go backwards. We must go forward. Always forward.

Certain realities of life we only see through eyes cleansed by our tears.