Sometimes they would rustle and fidget impatiently in the pews and fiddle with missals and fold the parish newsletter into ships and trumpets.

Mary is always shining in her window, watching over the street below. I have grown grateful for this rarefied presence, respectful and inclined toward pious feelings when I pass.

Prisons don't solve problems. They create problems.

We are inclined to label “wolves,” who are so often the world’s most vulnerable and marginalized.

St. Ignatius suggests three possible intellectual and emotional “times” of one’s life “in any of which a sound and good election can be made.”

For me, wisdom comes mainly in the form of insights.