Now that the New Year 2024 has just begun it would be fruitful to seek some insights as to how we can live it with great benefit for us and those around us. As I was pondering on this fact it just happened to me to open the autobiography of Pope St...
Several years ago, I published an essay for my blog the Gospel Truth that contained my musings on life after death. It created some interesting feedback. My treatment of salvation caused the greatest concern. My main critic erroneously thought that...
While frequent Confession is important to growing in one’s spiritual life, there is also a beneficial practice we can all do every day at home: make a daily examination of conscience. But what does this term “examination of conscience” mean...
Whatever happened to sin? For the answer to this perplexing question, simply replace the question mark with a period. What happened to sin is that the “whatever” perspective on right and wrong has rendered sin archaic. When whatever feels...
Once there was an older, very stern, upright, humorless woman—we’ll call her Mrs. Pendergast—who wasn’t feeling well. She went to see a doctor, who began by asking her some routine questions. “Do you drink at all...
The feast of the nativity of St John the Baptist is certainly characterised by joy, which the Latin word for it is gaudium. Interestingly enough we are not talking about felicitas, happiness, but gaudium, joy. The collect for the Mass during...
At the core of the human person is the most essential duty, the duty to worship God and live according to His commands. On the day that we die, it is not to any government that we will answer, nor to any person, not even to the leaders of the...
I was born almost 12 hours before the assassination of John F. Kennedy. I remember seeing the Vietnam War on TV but as a child, it didn’t mean much. I saw Nixon getting on a helicopter leaving the White House after his resignation. I remember Ronald...
