Impure Thoughts

Impure Thoughts

For many years hearing confessions I would listen to the anguish, especially of senior Catholics, concerning their “impure thoughts.”  It was impressed upon them by parents and teachers that the desires of the flesh, especially sexual thoughts, were in conflict with...

Essay: Helping our Spiritually-Starved Children

I’m departing from my usual short blog posts to post a longer essay entitled: Helping our Spiritually-Starved Children.  This is a topic that requires a bit more explanation than can fit into a typical blog post of 400 or so words.  Hopefully it will be a...