All the people who have been faithful for a really long time started receiving heaven a really long time ago. They have been receiving the very life of Christ, perhaps daily, for decades. They have spent all those years in Jesus’ friendship, and been transformed by that experience.

Nothing has ever been able to replace the family, and every civilization that has undercut the family, either by neglect or by trying to replace it with some government agency, has undercut its own foundations. Every civilization that has persisted in that has collapsed. The evidence is overwhelming.

A capable hierarchy isn’t built from the top down, but from the bottom up. We get the bishops and priests we need from faithful homes, schools, and parishes.

The Bible is a place where we go to “take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ” not an answer book but a place to think & ask

The happiest people in America are married, and serious about their religion. They have the best health, financial stability & relationships

The Church - an institution that is already very good at bringing people together, creating bonds that help, heal and hope.

“Spiritual but not religious” is messing around.

We become the most perfect version of ourselves when our lives revolve around the will of God.

God wants a relationship with us so close that people can’t tell where we end, and He begins.