"Sadly, I personally know black Catholics whose personal experience has led them to believe that their black lives do not really matter to the church."

Daniel Berrigan, the Jesuit priest and acclaimed poet who for decades famously challenged U.S. Catholics to reject war and nuclear weapons, died on April 30. He was 94. He was a Jesuit for 76 years and a priest for 63 years.

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.”

Relationships are not erased by eternity. To the contrary, resurrected life redeems, restores and renews, our earthly relationships.