In the end—at the end—the human heart has only one plea. It wants to live. It knows that it was not created to go down into the darkness.

Justice and peace are of God. To receive them, the depths of the human must be laid open.

That world is no larger than the people and concerns you care about. Everything else is only the wallpaper of your world.

Vows exist to foster life, to defend it, to allow it to flourish.

If heaven admitted shame, Clem and Richard Neuhaus might still blush at the separation they chose to create between themselves on earth.

Jesus went to the cross, a terribly adult reality, with the trust and the resiliency of a child.

Martin Luther King Jr., Ta-Nehisi Coates and the American Dream

We used to stress (rightly) that to miss Mass was a grave sin. We ought to work harder to make Mass something gracious and beautiful.

In Confession, your act of telling your story opens the way for God’s act of forgiveness.

Adults should know that any choice of substance changes us forever. To use the image of the poet, we don’t just follow one road rather than another.