Last Tuesday — the first day of no public Masses in our diocese — I was reminded of this scene from Evelyn Waugh's novel "Brideshead Revisited".

The foundation of our confidence does not rest in us, but in God. 

This is a strange time for friendship. 

Sin, by its very nature, is a direct attack upon or a violation of some good.

The news changes so quickly day by day, even hour by hour, that it’s hard to keep up, much less know, really, what to think about all of this.

The question of whether everyone is saved.

For most, their enthusiastic acclamation of Jesus as Messiah disguises from them their repudiation of what that messiahship means. 

Man himself fell through sin. 

The five truths  that follow are indeed hard. 

The philosopher, who died this past January, defied stereotypes by remaining true to his moral sensibility.