We have not loved our nation in spite of its flaws—too often we have covered over those flaws and allowed them to grow.

I might have come in wounded, but during Mass I am healed and made whole.

We have to find ways of speaking to those outside our community of agreement not just through new media but in new ways.

Do not expect a return to the days when comity could be coaxed with a little (or a lot) of bourbon and branch.