“You are the light of the world. But always remember the light you hold is not your own."

More than in most countries the church in the United States has the means and the will to help. So let's put those resources to work.

Tomorrow the State Assembly of the state of California may very well pass a bill to make assisted suicide legal for its 38+ million residents.

Before hitting the big screen, comics were stories our parents read to us.

There is a tendency to believe that issuing a 140 character response to a matter of urgency actually constitutes making a difference.

Whatever happened to our idealism? It’s starting to look like we think being an idealist means wearing an Apple Watch.

Like Pope Francis, Oliver’s poetry invites readers to let the distractions of our modern, constant motion, hyper-stimulated world fall away from time to time, to enter into that quiet place of contemplation and gratitude that waits in the world all around us.

The Jesuit insight in the 'X-Files'

'People who want to defend their families don’t need a 100-round drum magazine.'

Last Thursday saw yet another frightening act of gun violence this time in Lafayette La as a man shot off 20 rounds during an evening showing of ldquo Trainwreck rdquo killing two and injuring nine others Since then the country has pretty much followed its scripted cycle of reactions nbsp P