Have You Forgotten the Sacramentals?
Someone close to me, noticing that I was wearing a scapular, exclaimed with a mixture of pity and contempt, “I did not know that you were...
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Should we be Indifferent to Everything but God?
One of the difficulties we all face in spiritual life is that attitudes which seem to be identical can, in fact, be quite different and...
An Audience with John Paul II
In 1980, I was granted the extraordinary privilege of a private audience with His Holiness Pope John Paul II. Knowing that John Paul had a..
Ingratitude: The Forgotten Sin
I recall vividly that in my early teens I read the memoirs of a priest who, aged 70, bitterly lamented his ingratitude toward his mother...
The Joy of Being Indebted
The word “bankruptcy” is a nightmare to finance people. Literature is eloquent on this topic. Consider Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit...
Silence of Riches versus Silence of Poverty
My Dear Friend:
I am sure you have sometimes found yourself sitting next to an unknown person at a dinner party; you try to engage in a...
Culpable & Laudable Disobedience
Once again I am going to question your knowledge of ancient Greece. I assume that you have read Antigone — this great work of Sophocles ...
Suffering, A Crushing Burden: Allowing the Burden to Sanctify and Not Destroy Us
If there is one thing we all dread, it is suffering. A newborn baby will already respond with screams to any discomfort...
Mary, Queen of Widows
Mary is the gem of God’s creation. For God made great things in her ("quia fecit in me magna qui potens est"). She has been honored as...
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