Money has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it together.

Believe in miracles. And live in a way that might necessitate one.

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.

The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

God can use anything, and anyone - even a king or a president, even a tax collector or a businessman, a priest or a prostitute, a Republican or a Democrat.

We see God all the time here. People only hear bad things about our neighborhood. Kensington is known as the badlands. I always say you have to be careful when you call a place the badlands because that is exactly what they said about Nazareth. Nothing good can come from there. I think we see God in the margins.