I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I'm not responsible for its going somewhere.
It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.
The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.
It's not going to be easy to change things.
I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.
My father had very little formal education.
Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.