All My Life I Have Prayed To

In Legal Parlance, That Is Called 'the Rational Person Test,' ... That's Where Somebody Else Says, 'even Though We Have No Idea What This Person Would Want In This Circumstance In Which They Cannot Themselves Tell Us What They Want, A 'rational' Person - Meaning, Myself - In That Circumstance Would Want To Die.' So You Move Very Quickly From So-called Voluntary Euthanasia To Involuntary Euthanasia. These Legal And Medical Developments Are Not Simply Hypothetical They're In The Courts Right Now.

My Eyes Are Wide Open To The Conflicts Within The Church, But I Don't Think You Can Call It Schism.

We Shall Not Weary, We Shall Not Rest, As We Stand Guard At The Entrance Gates And The Exit Gates Of Life, And At Every Step Along Way Of Life, Bearing Witness In Word And Deed To The Dignity Of The Human Person-of Every Human Person.

Every Day Of The Year Is A Good Day To Think More Deeply About Good Friday, For Good Friday Is The Drama Of The Love By Which Our Every Day Is Sustained.

Optimism Is A Matter Optics, Of Seeing What You Want To See And Not Seeing What You Don't Want To See. Hope, On The Other Hand, Is A Christian Virtue. It Is The Unblinking Acknowledgment Of All That Militates Against Hope, And The Unrelenting Refusal To Despair. We Have Not The Right To Despair, And, Finally, We Have Not The Reason To Despair