Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences.

Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.

In the Church the transformative power of the Eucharist is experienced through the dignified celebration of Holy Mass, and people are empowered for mission because of that.

The Church offers the medicine of the divine mercy so that healed souls can grasp the truth that will liberate them in the fullest meaning of human freedom.

Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy.

The world needs a pastor, whether it knows it or not.

The papacy is an impossible job. So the best thing Catholics can do for the pope is to pray for him.

In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights issue, arguably the greatest civil rights issue of our time.

[Jesus Christ to Pope Francis] is the Lord with whom he speaks for hours every day in prayer. The Risen One who reached out, touched his life, and called him into mission.

The emphasis on the "peripheries" is also a distinctively "Franciscan" way of expressing the pope's respect for untutored popular piety - a respect, I might add, that was shared by St. John Paul II.

The Guardian,[is] one of the most consistently anti-Catholic newspapers in the world.

There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it.

No - the stars are close and dear and I have joined the brotherhood of the worlds. And everything's holy - everything, even me.

You can't just wish to be a millionaire; you have to figure out how to earn it.

When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.

I was born on May 17, 1979, in Newark, New Jersey.

Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.

Morality is stronger than tyrants.

My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.

Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard.

I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.