We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.

The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness

In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us?

The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.