The only Americans under review for canonization to attend a public university, Day’s indiscretions and confusions, those awkward discoveries and repeated failures of youth, are our own.

I love this man who expressed his love with deeds and whose last deed will likely be his slipping away from me.

This was the first time I realized that being the H.R. rep across the desk from someone I knew provided comfort for them.

“Young people aren’t here for the church; they are the church—the most beautiful and dynamic part of the church.”

In the “current climate” it has evidently become much easier to hate. But it has also easy to feel self-satisfied about doing the smallest amount of good.

At first, I blamed God for my injury. Then I thanked God for every step.