Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Argentine archbishop criticizes cardinals who back Fiducia Supplicans

Archbishop Emeritus Héctor Aguer of La Plata, Argentina. / Credit: Argentine Episcopal Conference ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 5, 2024 / 18:00 pm (CNA). Héctor Aguer, the archbishop emeritus of La Plata, Argentina, criticized two cardinals who have expressed their support for the Vatican declaration Fiducia Supplicans, which allows for the blessing of homosexual couples. In […]

Decent people tip, and well. Bad people don’t…..

The story pops up now and again on social media as a subject for the ten-minute-hate, and a justifiable one too. Someone stiffs a waiter or a bartender and tries to excuse themselves for doing it. Someone signs the credit card receipt at the restaurant and puts a zero in the space for a tip, […]

How boredom helps us know God, and ourselves…

St. Augustine famously said, “Our hearts are restless until they find their rest in Thee,” but what exactly is the “restlessness” from which we’re being rescued? I think Augustine was thinking of people like himself, who moved from philosophy to philosophy and their associated ways of living, never finding any of them satisfying. But we […]