If The Cause Of Poverty Is Marginalization,

In The Absence Of Truth, Power Is The Only Game In Town.

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.

Consumerism Is, Quite Precisely, The Consuming Of Life By The Things Consumed. It Is Living In A Manner That Is Measured By Having Rather Than Being... And Consumerism Is Hardly The Sin Of The Rich. The Poor, Driven By Discontent And Envy, May Be As Consumed By What They Do Not Have As The Rich Are Consumed By What They Do Have. The Question Is Not, Certainly Not Most Importantly, A Question About Economics. It Is First And Foremost A Cultural And Moral Problem Requiring A Cultural And Moral Remedy.

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.

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.