In the pulpit, were supposed to present the teaching with all of its unvarnished clarity, but when you step out of the pulpit, you have to meet people where they are and try to walk with them.

Everything we see in a Catholic church is there for a single purpose: to tell a love story.

I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

People of faith should be able to have confidence in their right to freely express and live their beliefs.

There are serious problems that have to do with the environment, that have to do with the way in which we live and consume.

What the church is really concerned about is what endures.

The great American tradition is one of pluralism, not exclusive secularism. The strength of our country is reflected in the contributions that we all make to the common good.

Love is the most powerful force in the universe and we have the extraordinary ability to give and receive it.

It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.

I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.

To meditate is to listen with a receptive heart.

Let me ask you. If someone called you and offered you a ride in the Indianapolis 500 and you were a male race car driver, would you turn the ride down?

Of the offspring of the gentilman Jafeth, came Habraham, Moyses, Aron and the profettys; and also the kyng of the right line of Mary, of whom that gentilman Jhesus was borne.

My gut reaction [on Betsy DeVos] was, oh, my God. We are now back into the education wars.

An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth.

Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.

The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics.