Status Updates From Death Comes for the Archbishop

These poor Mexicans, he reflected, we’re not the first to pour out their love [for Mary] in this simple fashion. Raphael and Titian had made costumes for her in their time, and the great masters had made music for her, and the great architects had built cathedrals for her.

Give people an outlet to express their love in an embodied way!

"'scholars always manage to dig out something belittling,' he complained."

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world’s hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman’s tenderness.

The fickle Mexican population soon found as much diversion in being devout as they had once found in being scandalous.

If we are to save their souls, we must make it clear that we want no profit for ourselves…

Doctrine is well enough for the wise, Jean; but the miracle is something we can hold in our hands and love.