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.

If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.

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

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

There is one big misunderstanding of the monastics leaving society.

Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is "being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see" (Heb. 11:1). We believe poverty can end even though it is all around us. We believe in peace even though we hear only rumours of wars. And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.

One of the great dangers in political engagement is misplaced hope.