"You believe in the one God -- that is creditable enough, but even the demons have the same belief, and they tremble with fear. Fool! Would you not know that faith without deeds is useless?" James 2:19-20 Christians are often mocked for being like sheep, gullible...

"Some distribute their own goods, and grow richer; others take away what is not their own, and are always in want." Prov 11:24 In recent times, a wave of great pride has come upon the privileged. Merit being a racist creation from past societies (so we're told), we...

"Your prophets provided you visions of whitewashed illusion; They did not lay bare your guilt, in order to restore your fortunes; they saw for you only oracles of empty deceit." Lam 2:14 Dear brothers, One of the things I appreciate the most at Mass is when the...

"Einstein's relativity theory properly concerns the physical cosmos. But it seems to me to describe exactly the situation of the intellectual and spiritual world of our time. Relativity theory states that there are no fixed systems of reference in the universe. When...

"The chief aim of order is to give room for good things to run wild." G.K. Chesterton It is common today to hear atheists, agnostics, scientists, experts, religious, including Christians, speak of nature, not as creation, but as a creator, owed much fear and awe....

"To be courageous is to love the good more than you fear evil and suffering" Fr. Donald Calloway The root word for cour-age is heart (coeur in French). The symbol for love is often depicted as a heart, which tells us that to love means to take courage. "Love hurts" so...

"So long as we combine ceaseless and often reckless scientific speculation with rapid and often random social reform, the result must inevitably be not anarchy but ever-increasing tyranny." G.K. Chesterton (New Witness, May 12, 1922) Brothers, One of the great...

"And should I not pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left, to say nothing of all the animals?" Jonah 4:11 God ordered one man, one reluctant man to convert an...

"Where there is love, there is God." Mother Teresa The word love is so commonly used, its use is becoming uncommon. Some love food, others sex, and others love only what others have. In Catholic tradition, those "loves" are referred to as gluttony, lust and envy...

Dear brothers, "No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon (wealth)." Matthew 6:24 In Luke's account (Lk 16:13-15), it goes on to say that the...