FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND :  " O nly God and a few angels know the difference between embrace and smother."  John She...

Lumen Gentium paragraph 42   L ove is not a feeling.   If love solely consisted of the ache you have in your heart, then virtue w...

T here is a legend that Pope John XXIII (soon to be saint it seems) was asked the question, "How many people work at the Vatican,...

“C atholic” was never meant to be a subcategory like exists, for example, in the fiction genre.   There is fiction, and then under that ...

FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND :  " Y ou don't decide not to be Catholic anymore - Catholicism is something that soaks int...

  N o doubt about it, dogs have a sixth sense.  They can predict things before they happen.  You hear about it all the time - the dogs go...

G reetings! I'll be heading out of town for about a week.  I leave the parish in the capable hands of Fr. Leonard and Sebastian. ...

Continuing our look at Lumen Gentium paragraph 41 H oliness is not the job of the clergy.   It is everybody’s calling.   Bishops a...

A newly ordained priest told the story of preaching at a daily Mass about the absolute necessity of prayer.   This is no choice.   We must...

W hen Marin Luther had problems with certain books of the New Testament which appeared to contradict the new theology he was developing,...

FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND :  " T he Church remains, as Cardinal Newman wrote, '…the poet of her children, full of mus...

Continuing our look at Lumen Gentium - paragraph 40 T he title of this section is interesting in and of itself: “The Call to Holiness.”...

I must say that I started off enjoying Mark Ira Kaufman’s letter to the editor in 11 September’s edition of the Akron Beacon Journal sup...

M ichelin makes tires.   They have made tires for a very long time.   It is difficult for us to think of a time when they needed to come u...

FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND :  " O ne could easily seek forgiveness from God, but from one's neighbors?  They were an e...