Ted works hard at a job he doesn’t like. The pay isn’t good, and he thinks the job is below him. When he gets home each evening, his two children are often screaming at each other or demanding his attention.

“Born again” Christians believe they are saved only because they have “accepted Jesus as their personal saviour.”

 One of our readers recently claimed that Saint Gabriel’s Newsroom lacks focus.

I’m old enough to remember the 1960s cultural revolution. Actually, it only really got going by the mid-sixties and petered out by about 1973.

Our Lady is the most important person in the Bible, after our Lord. Yet, she says very little. When she experiences the awesome mystery of the first Christmas, she says nothing that is recorded in the gospel narratives. “She treasured all these things in her heart and pondered them” (Luke 2:19).

A man walks along a beach and finds a sand castle. “How wonderful nature is!” he thinks. “Look at how the wind and the tide has shaped this pile of sand to look just like a castle!”

For the first time in history, it seems, we are being told that what we believe really isn’t that important.

I recently did a survey of swear words in various languages. They included many of the same words used in English…