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  • Happiness and Where To Find It

    Today, I am posting an article written by Professor Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira (b. 1908- d. 1995) for it is a veritable treasure trove of long forgotten Catholic common sense. It is titled: The Happiness of An Idealistic Child. It is one in a series of articles that Dr. Plinio wrote on the topic of True and False Paths to…

  • The Box of Life

    “When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.” ― G.K. Chesterton, from What’s Wrong with the World  If you walk into an old Roman Catholic Church, you will see large wooden structures that look like upright boxes, known as confessionals. In such confessionals, generations of our Catholic ancestors have faced…

  • A Tip from a Spiritual Master on a September Ember Day

    “The fear you say you have about sins committed in the past is deceptive and is a genuine torment caused by the devil. Haven’t you already confessed those sins? Well, what are you afraid of? Let that whole sad affair go once and for all, and instead open your heart wide to a holy and boundless confidence in Jesus. Trust…

  • Hail Catholic Guilt!

    Much has been said about “Catholic guilt”, the much being: referencing it in conversation as a bad thing, a thing to be sloughed off following a self-described “emotionally unhealthy Catholic childhood”. Such a person, as an invented example, is irritated after telling a lie, for after lying, he feels an immediate guilt, a guilt which plagues him throughout the day,…