The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.

We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution.

Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members - the last, the least, the littlest.

I'm very close to the pro-life movement.

I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of the sacraments.

It's hard to determine where lies culpability.

The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even death of immigrants.

With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to receive the Eucharist. Each one of us makes that decision.

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.

Immigration should be enforced in a proportional and humane manner.

By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.

When---when I dance, " she said quietly. "When I dance, I---I forget all the---the bad things." "I---I only remember the good things. That is the b-best thing about d-dancing.

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

My accountant regularly asks to take me to lunch. I always say I can't afford it.

I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.

Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.

All my work comes out of my life.

Love lasts when the relationship comes first

Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.