The influential and prolific French Catholic,  Father Louis Bouyer (1913-2004) — was born into a Protestant family on the eve of World War I, and was briefly a Lutheran minister.

He called himself the "little brother of Jesus," and he became a saint by bringing the presence of Christ's love to the poorest of the poor on the margins of the Sahara Desert.

"…the liberal man will both give and spend the right amounts and on the right objects, alike in small things and in great."
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

In our time, the saintly must prove itself to the political, which often stops up its ears. In the time of Saint Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) it was often the other way around: the political had to prove itself to the saintly. 

We had been speaking by phone and volleying by e-mail with the regularity that marked our friendship for three decades...

An unpleasant fact of book publishing today is that Big Authors can suck the oxygen out of a market.

Monday of last week (18th Week of the year) there was a powerful passage from the Book of Jeremiah. 

Nothing disappoints more than misplaced hope.

We live in a turbulent time; a time that’s similar, in some ways, to the various Reformations of 500 years ago.