The question for me is not are we political, but how are we political? We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage.

Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way.

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.

I think we've misinterpreted some of the scriptures to justify the death penalty. So whereas a lot of folks in America feel like we can do far better justice  -  it's more expensive to do the death penalty than the alternatives  -  there's so many reasons that people come to the conclusion to abolish the death penalty.

The Catholic understanding has been that the death penalty has been become, like, outdated because in industrialized countries.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.

When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.