The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

I am convinced that if we lose kids to the culture of drugs and materialism, of violence and war, it's because we don't dare them, not because we don't entertain them. It's because we make the gospel too easy, not because we make it too difficult. Kids want to do something heroic with their lives, which is why they play video games and join the army. But what do they do with a church that teaches them to tiptoe through life so they can arrive safely at death?

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

Recognizing that something is wrong is the first step toward changing the world.

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

We can also cling to the treasures of our faith and get rid of the things that are cluttering that. It is a time we are seeing some trending away from the things that were cluttering our faith.

Every 70-year-old needs a young person in their lives to mentor, and every 20-year-old needs a senior.