There are people who are dangerous, and evil is real.

Discontentment is a gift. It's the stuff that changes the world.

The more I have read the Bible and studied the life of Jesus, the more I have become convinced that Christianity spreads best not through force but through fascination.

I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.

When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the Son of God.

It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.

The Eucharist is a symbol of that as you have bread, the staple food of the poor, and wine, a luxury of the rich, which are brought together at the table.