Scripture for Life: What it was like to be Jesus was to be hopeful, generous, capable of much, but able to do only as much as others would accept from him. That is how he was Godlike.
NCR Connections: "Happens all the time," I told my sister when she shared news that a Catholic school had rescinded a job offer to a woman with a wife. What doesn't happen all the time: The school reversed its decision.
We say: Fear of the other can be an understandable human tendency, one amplified during times of insecurity and change. But our faith calls us to do better, and too many U.S. Catholics are not getting the message.
