We're not putting that before the Lord. We'll pray that everybody stays healthy, that we have a good ball game and that everybody will be lifted up watching it on a world stage.

Even with advance knowledge and awareness, and active participation in the process, there is no denying the sense of pain or loss in a parish or school community.

When you're a brand new band, there's a tingly sort of feeling you get when you play a song that you just wrote.

We're being not overprotective but special, and careful, about it because it is special. We don't want it to get lost in the shuffle of the Christmas (rush). We want everything to be right, whether it's the artwork or the title. We're quite precious about it, but I think that's good.

Talking is just masturbation without the mess.

I hope and pray that you can always continue to say, 'I'm proud to be a Catholic,'