Are we like goats?  We make a lot of noise, and we will eat anything.

The word "talent" presents difficulties, since it seems to refer to performance.  Our God in fact wants us to go deeper than performance and recognize essential qualities which are not easily subject to observation.

"Stay awake!"  In fact, the point of the parable is the exercise of forethought, as opposed to vigilance.

On sainthood as a process.

The great commandments.

Every twelve years: "Caesar's Coin" just before a presidential election.

More perversity.

Perversity -- and a tribute to Joaquin Lavado (Quino), noted for his comic strip "Mafalda."

Of Brownies and brownie points.

"The parable that everybody hates": proof that Jesus intended his parables to be provocative.

The parable of the unforgiving debtor: Do we get it?