A solitary image, of ourselves or others, is often more misleading than life-giving.

The saints are passionate; the lukewarm are professional.

God’s mercy finds a way to fix, in time, in us, what a time of sin has distorted.

Today in honoring the saints, we recognize that they have built the church.

We love our definitions, our categories and our ability to transform most anything in the world into an equation.

If we, the people, are ourselves responsible for the good of the state, then we have the same obligations that a medieval monarch once had.