Kerry Walters

Christianity isn’t an abstract philosophy. It’s a complete way of life.

The heart of Christianity is the great and incomprehensible truth that God’s true majesty, God’s authentic immensity, consists in God’s willingness to become lowly and forsaken.

An embrace of Lady Poverty means that we try to live freely by getting out from under the possessions that own us.

A Christian celebration of humanity consists in lovingly midwifing our fellow humans into full being.

Francis took Christ’s teaching seriously. He was too honest to read Scripture selectively and too unsophisticated to spin elaborate no-risk interpretations of it. Instead, he championed the radical notion that Christ meant what he said when he spoke of love and poverty and sacrifice. To presume otherwise is to conclude that Christ was in the strange habit of always saying one thing but meaning something quite different.