Blaise Pascal said, “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
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The three classical spiritual practices that the Church urges us to embrace during Lent are prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. I would strongly encourage every one of my readers to follow this recommendation, perhaps intensifying each one of the three during the holy season. But there is another Lenten discipline that I would like to put forward, inspired very much by the Gospel readings this week: forgiving an enemy.
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Some years ago, my friend Msgr. Francis Mannion wrote an article concerning the three essential features of the Eucharistic liturgy—namely, the priest, the rite, and the people.
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The new and much-ballyhooed Netflix film The Two Popes should, by rights, be called The One Pope
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I am sure that every religious person, every believer in God, at some point wonders, “Why doesn’t God just straighten everything out?”
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“to live is to change and to be perfect is to have changed often.”
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Last week, Cardinal Roger Etchegaray passed away. Perhaps his was not a household name, but this very decent man made a substantive contribution to the life of the Church
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There is, to be sure, a stress within the Biblical tradition that God is radically other
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Albert Einstein wrote a letter in which he dismissed belief in God as superstitious
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There is a common, and I’ll admit somewhat understandable, interpretation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy that sees the great work as a celebration of the virtues of the Shire, that little town where the hobbits dwell in quiet domesticity.
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