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As often happens in the Bible, the storyline narrows from a wider national tapestry to a slender thread where one woman's choices, initiatives, and leadership have global repercussions and work good for all of us." (79)

Chileans venerate the Pope, but they don't heed him in sexual matters and their consequences, because he's a well-off, elderly celibate, who hasn't worked a day in his life and doesn't know much about it. (305)

Currently re-reading to the kids...

"Birth has been the most human and most sacred act of my life so far."

"I am too focused on the not-yet part of the Kingdom. I focus my eyes and my life entirely on the despair or the brokenness, on the frustrations and injustices. I miss the beauty in the brokenness. I miss the Church living and breathing new life into death."

"Our skin is made of dust, so we often catch the perfumed scent of the Garden in the cool of the evening, and we know, somewhere inside, that we're supposed to be walking with God, unashamed still."