The White Parasol

Back in 2005, I visited Mount St. Bernard’s Abbey in Leicestershire.  There is an altar there to Blessed Brother Michael Tansy. I was in some desperation;  my son’s illness had come back again. So, I asked him “What do I have to do?”  I was desperate for instructions. And I startlingly got an answer.  From [...]

I am with the sinners. Straight up, might as well face it. That is, to be aware of being a sinner and that being saved has nothing to do with how good we judge that we are, or can become. In the gospels: MAT 10, 9-13 MRK 3, 15-17 LUKE 5, 27-32 Matthew (also known [...]

Politics is about anything other than the truth. It can’t ever be about the truth because where ever you have two people pursuing political aims, you have the beginning of the deceit; where you have three, you have the beginning of siding with the one most able to press your own buttons. The truth gets [...]

What is the truth about truth? We spend so much time deluding ourselves and others that it is no wonder that we haven’t a clue what ‘truth’ is. We have our own truths. We have our family sanctioned ‘truths’, our social ’truths’, our group ‘truths’. But how do we know what ‘truth’ is?