Our (Not So) Secret Idolatry
Words are associated with images. What images do you associate with the word "idolatry"?
Words are associated with images. What images do you associate with the word "idolatry"?
Acting according to this pattern, one not only becomes holy but also enjoys perpetual serenity in this life.
I was momentarily confused and disoriented in my early years of seminary formation before I received a consoling advice from a priest in the confessional.
Imagine a boy growing up wild in the woods, without any human contact, taught by the wolves—such things have apparently happened in India.
Too honest or not honest enough, it's all part of the same problem.
Pride has four species: boastfulness, ostentation, hypocrisy, and ambition.
'Let us consider carefully the deliberations that we must undertake and the array of challenges that we face, which are grave and which are not.'
We can take the approach of the little prince. Just say ‘no thank you.’