Genuine Tolerance Does Not Mean Ignoring Differences

Genuine Tolerance Does Not Mean Ignoring Differences As If Differences Made No Difference. Genuine Tolerance Means Engaging Differences Within A Bond Of Civility And Respect.

If The Cause Of Poverty Is Marginalization, The Cure Is Inclusion.

I Do Believe That Those Who Compare The Religious Right To The Nazis Have Fallen Victim To Polemical Heat Prostration.

For Paradise We Long. For Perfection We Were Made...this Longing Is The Source Of The Hunger And Dissatisfaction That Mark Our Lives...this Longing Makes Our Loves And Friendships Possible, And So Very Unsatisfactory. The Hunger Is For...nothing Less Than Perfect Communion With The...one In Whom All The Fragments Of Our Scattered Existence Come Together...we Must Not Stifle This Longing. It Is A Holy Dissatisfaction. Such Dissatisfaction Is Not A Sickness To Be Healed, But The Seed Of A Promise To Be Fulfilled...the Only Death To Fear Is The Death Of Settling For Something Less.

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.