What is possible when we acknowledge the strength of our diversity?

It is in our acts of mercy, not retribution, that we share in the very life of God.

"Memory is a key part of keeping faith in the modern world."

The boy I knew so long ago in grammar and high school had died a martyr, an American hero.

Patty Fallone chose not to blame God when her husband was killed. She chose to make the best of her situation. Every day, she chose to get up every morning and go on living.

From America s issue of Oct 1 2001 On Sept 13 two days after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center I made my way to one of the emergency trauma centers in Manhattan It had been hastily set up in a cavernous sports facility called Chelsea Piers on the Hudson River I had been there ea