The Catholic understanding has been that the death penalty has been become, like, outdated because in industrialized countries. We have other ways of protecting societies from dangerous people without killing them. And in fact, it's important to remember that much of the world has done away with the death penalty.

You can't really learn God's hope like you learn the logic of an argument or the details of a story. It's more like learning to belly laugh. You catch hope from someone who has it down in their gut.

If we believe terrorists are past redemption, we should just rip up like 1/2 the New Testament because it was written by one.

We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.

Sometimes our tunnel vision is limited to what we see outside our window. Until racial injustice becomes personal then I don't think it moves us in our gut.

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.

Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.