Creation

As Frank Sheed said,if a carpenter made a chair and left the room,the chair would still remain.If God created the universe and abandoned it,the universe would be no more.Since God created out of nothing,unless He continues to hold us in being,we should simply cease to be.

AIDS and condoms

Once again in the news.Here is an analogy.A reformed thief tries to persuade a thief from robbing a bank and gets nowhere.Eventually he tells the thief to use the right amount of explosives as the amount selected may have caused injurries.The bank robbery goes well and no one is injurred.But please do not expect the Catholic Church to issue guidelines on how to rob banks safely.

Hitler's Popess

Am reading the life of Margaret Sanger,founder of Planned Parenthood.Not a nice person.She wanted the eradication of the African people by means of birth control and she was anti-Semitic.She also admired Hitler.Makes Marie Stopes look almost moderate.

Spiritual Secrets of a Trappist Monk

By Fr Raymond OCSO.Sophia Institute Press.What an amazing book.Far better than the later works of fellow Trappist Thomas Merton.He writes that St Thomas Aquinas taught that the mind of man has a natural movement towards truth and the will of man a natural movement towards goodness.The will of man would know perfect happiness only when it could hold as its own not this good or that good but all Goodness. Highly recommended.

Celebrities on dying well

So Sir Michael Caine is in favour of euthanasia.Not surprising really.No doubt an increasing number of celebrities will demand to die at the time of their choice.We need to respond by offering what is best in the Christian care of the dying.

Anger at Pope Benddict

Why was there so much anger before the UK visit?A number of people have spiritual and psychological issues about religion rather than intellectual and philosophical.Others just hate the Church.But there are still others who have been genuinely hurt by the filth within the Church.It is so sad to see their anger directed at the wrong person.

The Clergy Abuse Crisis

If the research evidence is correct and the majority of victims are adolescents,does this make it
a lesser crime? Surely not.How many of those young people are going to grow in trust - let alone learning to trust the Church?The Holy Father in his letter to the people of Ireland writes with profound psychological and spiritual insight.