Human persons are willed by God; they are imprinted with God’s image. Their dignity does not come from the work they do, but from the persons they are. (Pope John…

National Migration Week - January 6 - 12      Too often in our contemporary culture we fail to encounter immigrants as persons, and instead look at them as others. During this…

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. (Charles Dickens)

Into this world, this demented inn in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited.”   (Thomas Merton)

This Advent, I want to warm myself by the fire of hope!   (Christopher West)  

One of the essential paradoxes of Advent: that while we wait for God, we are with God all along, that while we need to be reassured of God’s arrival, or…

Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving the others with God's own love and concern.   (Mother Teresa)

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the…

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. (Henry David Thoreau)

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.    (Margaret Mead)