I love it when people can actually engage with the materials of the sacrament in advance.

They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the nest and to be sent to the frontiers of the world, avoiding the temptation to 'domesticate' them. This is the most concrete way of imitating the Lord.

The Church is the home that accepts everyone and refuses no one ... the greater the sin, the greater the love that the Church should show towards those who convert.

There is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you will, the righteous and sinners. The contemporary world, with its open wounds which affect so many of our brothers and sisters, demands that we confront every form of polarization which would divide it into these two camps.

Working for a just distribution of the fruits of the earth and human labor is not mere philanthropy. It is a moral obligation.

It is horrific even to think that there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day

Faith transforms the whole person precisely to the extent that he or she becomes open to love.