Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Idolatry (especially political idolatry) is dividing Catholics. Frivolous happy talk won’t fix it. Let us invoke the Holy Spirit and Our Lady, Undoer of Knots…..

Let us face it: our history tells us that deep divisions have been annoyingly persistent in the Church. From the very beginning, Peter and Paul—whose feast day we celebrate together on June 29 as pillars of the Church—went at it pretty hard over their fundamental differences. Paul even speaks of confronting Peter dramatically (“to his face”…