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Sooner or later, everyone should be arrested and imprisoned for a good cause. Or if not arrested and imprisoned, put in a position of suffering and sacrifice. Or if not that, at least be criticized or inconvenienced a little. Because if we’re coconspirators with the Spirit of God... Read More →

The poor are the center of the Church. But who are the poor? At first we might think of people who are not like us: people who live in slums, people who go to soup kitchens, people who sleep on the streets, people in prisons, mental hospitals, and nursing homes. But the poor can... Read More →

God must be allowed to speak unpredictably. The Holy Spirit, the very voice of Divine Liberty, must always be like the wind in “blowing where he pleases” (John 3:8). In the mystery of the Old Testament there was already a tension between the Law and the Prophets. In the New... Read More →

When Jesus took bread, blessed it, broke it, and gave it to his disciples, he summarized in these gestures his own life. Jesus is chosen from all eternity, blessed at his baptism in the Jordan River, broken on the cross, and given as bread to the world. Being chosen, blessed,... Read More →

How do we know that we are infinitely loved by God when our immediate surroundings keep telling us that we’d better prove our right to exist? The knowledge of being loved in an unconditional way, before the world presents us with its conditions, can’t come from books,... Read More →