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Nothing Good Is Good Enough

by Chris Fernandez Jason Craig’s Article What’s Wrong with the ‘Pursuit of Happiness,’ from the 2nd Sunday in OT is applicable here, and a good reference. This article clarifies what consists in true happiness: Freedom for the Good. “To be happy is to seek God and virtue in relation to the order of grace.” Jason quotes Aquinas in e...

07 02 2021

Don’t Be Confused About Your Real Home

In a wonderfully satirical passage from the beginning pages of Love in the Ruins, Walker Percy wrote of “the Roman Catholic remnant, a tiny scattered flock with no place to go” (Percy, p. 5).  The novel’s main character, Dr. Thomas More, says this “remnant” is one of three pieces into which the Catholic Church in his small town of Paradi...

12 08 2017

Nature Is Made for the Supernatural

Grace comes at the most unexpected times and in the most unusual places. I had a beer in hand, relaxing after skiing the glaciated slopes of Grands Montets, on a perfectly sunny, bluebird day.   The view before me - Mont Blanc, an immense massif rising 13,000 feet above the Chamonix valley floor, the rooftop of continental Europe.  I...

04 21 2016

Why the Rich Young Man Went Away Sorrowful…

Some years ago I attended the funeral of the wife of a good friend. As I waited to offer my condolences I watched a slide-show of their life together and was impressed at how handsome my friend had been in his youth and how much his younger self had resembled the icon of his age: Elvis Presley. When my turn came to speak to him, after offering m...

By Mr. David G. Simpson 09 29 2015

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