It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done..

I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they….

We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end..

I don't think Jesus was an exclusivist. He said, and we believe, that He is the unique representation of God in the world. But that doesn't mean this….

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life..

If there is not laughter in intimacy, it becomes heavy, burdensome, and dull. At my best moments, the love dialogue I try to carry on with You each d….

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives..

It should be no surprise that when rich men take control of the government, they pass laws that are favorable to themselves. The surprise is that tho….

People came into the Church in the Roman Empire because the Church was so good-Catholics were so good to one another, and they were so good to pagans….

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energet….

Angels are wonderful and exciting, and they have the appeal of beings who will take care of us and manifest God's personal concern..

God draws straight with crooked lines..

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler bec….

The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God's love is present in the world. It is in the sacraments, in the Eucharist, in our ….

I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a respo….

Survey data suggest that war has become more unpopular. The majority of the American people now think it was a mistake, in a shift away from the 51 p….

Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud..

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to re….

The men who were running the church in the late '60s and '70s panicked when they saw the chaos, which developed after the council. The relatively mod….

Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it..

The seminaries must face the fact that they are not turning out well-trained professional clergy. They must realize that preaching is creative work a….