Wherever you stand on the matter, it's clear that the church teaching on ordination represents a problem for evangelization.

A teacher, a legal assistant, a salesman, a poet, a realtor, a development director and a woman who had been homeless walked into community together.

Through the compassionate act of a stranger, who stepped up to help me after two others had passed me by, my life was saved.

What can we learn from these stories? What does God want to teach us?

My sons with autism are a burden and even a cross. They are not unwanted.

Jesus has felt our sorrow, carried our burdens, sweated through our labors, taken our punishment onto himself.