There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.
It's hard to determine where lies culpability.
Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members - the last, the least, the littlest.
Most analysts would agree that if all the undocumented immigrants in California were deported in one day, our state would experience a severe economic downturn. This does not even consider the many cultural and spiritual gifts these immigrants bring to our state and nation.
I found out that many of our Catholics simply don't know what the church teaches, and why, on a lot of issues, and therefore are saying things that they think are okay. They simply don't know.
A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive.
We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said. . . there is no room in the priesthood or religious life for someone who has abused a child. I think he's right.
All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?
With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.
MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.
You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.