Hymn of the Universe
"Only love can bring individual beings to their perfect completion, as individuals, by uniting them one with another, because only love takes possession of them and unites them by what lies deepest within them. This is simply a fact of our everyday experience. For indeed at what moment do lovers come into the most complete possession of themselves if not when they say they are lost in one another?...And why should not what is thus daily achieved on a small scale be repeated one day on world-wide dimensions? Humanity, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, of the one with the many...if we would see them made flesh in the world what more need we do than imagine our power to love growing and broadening till it can embrace the totality of (all peoples) and of the earth?"
Teilhard de Chardin, Hymn of the Universe
People's Companion to the Breviary
Iraq Study Group Report
The Eucharist Sacrament of Nonviolence
Eucharist is God's Absolute No to Violence
U.N. Convention Against Torture
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
The Washington
Post put it well in a recent special
series, "As prices skyrocket, those who can
least afford it are squeezed the most as the
world confronts the worst bout of food
inflation since the Soviet grain crisis of
the 1970s." Read
Rising Food Prices:
Impact on the Hungry
by the World Food Program.