"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
“Who is going to save our Church? Not our bishops, not our priests and religious. It is up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes, and the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops act like bishops, and your religious act like religious”
– Fulton J. Sheen, Address to the Supreme Convention of the Knights of Columbus in June of 1972
It’s very easy to get distracted in debates about abortion. There’s an important question to which you must repeatedly return…
In the last month, I’ve bought a new car and moved house. I always forget to do something necessary when this happens, so I’m drawing up a list of things to do…
1. Order Internet (because priorities!)
2. Contact Post Office to have my mail forwarded from my old address
3. Contact Bank to update home address for my account and credit card
4. Update address/car with car insurance
5. Complete change of address form with DMV and put in the mail
6. Buy the stuff which the previous house had but the new one doesn’t (e.g. kitchen equipment)
7. Send new address to friends and family
8. Send your updated address to your parish
9. Human Resources Department at work
The other day I shared this article from Simcha Fisher, begging priests to speak about the recent scandal:
We’ll see how many priests respond to this, but I was pleased to see another great homily from Father John Hollowell…
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
— Aristotle