It is religion that makes people virtuous. It is virtue that makes people human. It is religion that makes money humane.

The enemy is sin and death, and they are ready to play the very long game.

We can learn a little about how Catholics should be Catholics by looking a little more carefully at how the Scribes and Pharisees were Jews.

Start where God starts. Start with mercy.

The Gravity of Sin, the Miracle of Mercy, Heaven touching Earth, Heaven touching You, in your hands, right now, right here.

Extraordinary and extravagant discipleship is the new normal.

You cannot make me hate you. You cannot make my life a wasteland. Forgiveness gives us power over anger.

Imagine what they might do if you loved them just a little. Are you listening?

When we pray we are turning as much of ourselves as we have toward as much of God as we understand.

“Spiritual but not religious” is messing around.

The desert shows us the weapons we need to fight the good fight, and win the good fight, if only we will trust the weapons at hand.

Saints are humble because they all remember how much help their holiness took. 

He is giving people heaven. That’s what He keeps talking about: ‘The Kingdom of heaven is at hand.’”

Is there any love or loyalty to Him that is too much?

There is danger in public witness. There is only hell without public witness.

Some say “I don’t need faith in God to live a good life” but what they should be thinking about is "why is there goodness at all?"

Some things are so hard to do that it takes three generations to make people strong enough to do them.

Crowds don’t always mean people are interested in enlightenment. Sometimes they mean just the opposite.

The mass feeding stories are told more times in the New Testament than any other, even more times than the resurrection.

9 February 2024   Mark 7:31-37 Jesus went to gentile territory, the region of Tyre (modern Lebanon), with the intention of not being...