Why exchange one brand of Christianity for another with similar hang-ups?

We cannot be human, cannot be ourselves, without other human beings.

Young adult Catholics suffer from lacking a community of other young adults, but we fundamentally suffer from a lack of a wider Catholic community. A parish can offer that — even without the hip young adult group.

Jesus calls forth our loving gifts, though, apart from him, they can never rise to meet the lofty love of God.

Throughout the Gospels, Jesus is like an "arsonist," the pope said, setting people's hearts ablaze.

The first step in an evangelizing relationship is that the evangelizer be evangelized.