“We need to have the courage to place our deepest hopes in God alone, not in money, in a career, in worldly success or in our relationships with others, but in God. Only he can satisfy the deepest needs of our hearts.”
— Pope Benedict XVI, speaking Sept. 17 in London to 4,000 schoolchildren
“We’re looking at hope for our communities, that we would be communities of hope and that we would have hope that would spill over into the church and the world.”
— Sister Nancy Bauer, prioress of St. Benedict’s Monastery in St. Joseph, Minn., who was among ninety Benedictine nuns from more than 30 countries who gathered in Rome Sept 8-15 to discuss ways to strengthen their sense of hope and better share it with others