The way to happiness is, in a word, love. Sounds simple, but it’s not. Jesus says: “Love one another as I love you.”

We dead people need life, we sheep need a shepherd, we children need a teacher, the whole world needs Jesus!

I’ve often found that God holds us with the same closeness during the difficult transitions of our lives.

Few things seem as alien to us today as the economic life of the early Church . . . The wealth of the community was pooled and distributed according to need.

Mary of Magdala was known for her power to lead others, that she enjoyed economic autonomy and shared generously.

How can time, a reality we can’t hold in our hands or visibly perceive, be made holy?

Bringing bad news to desperate people has to be the worst gig in the world.

Stuck neck-deep in muck of my own making, God’s answer to my prayers may be Let me alone, but I’m too wrapped up in my own wrath to hear it.

This is the endless circle of love: God first loves us, and we respond, loving God directly and loving our neighbor.