There are many people who have gone before us, both in our biological and spiritual families, who have quietly and obscurely served God, loved others, and increased the amount of good in the world.

Whatever else the virgin birth may be, it doesn’t represent the domestication of the divine.

What, though, if we constructed a boundary between our time and God’s, and made time stop?

To submit to the baptism of John is to admit that we don’t always get it right, in a myriad of ways.

The poor and humble people who have faith in the Lord are the victims of the “intellectuals of religion,” and those who are “seduced by clericalism.”

"Journalists don't know the difference between an archbishop and a cardinal; they think Catholics worship Mary; they think the pope controls what every bishop and priest says and does."