The Way

'The only way to avoid criticism is to do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.' Everyone seems to be an expert in finding faults … spouses, friends, co-workers, parishioners, children. We often seem to get them wrong: we do the wrong thing, say the wrong...

Once there was a man who was so good that even the angels used to wonder at his goodness. His goodness used to spread like a perfume upon all those who met him. He himself was unaware that he was so good.
What was this goodness? Very simple! He never thought ill of anyone! He would quickly forget the bad deeds that others would do to him! He always viewed others in a guileless, simple-hearted light....

The Pope has been repeating it over and over again.
Evangelization. New evangelization. What does it mean? It means simply that the man of today, at the threshold of the year 2000, needs to listen again the good news of Jesus Christ! In the midst of today's confusion and muddled values, where there are...

"All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him down the cliff." (Luke 4, 28-29)
Molokai is one of the islands which make up the Hawaiian Islands. It is known as the friendly island. But for the lepers in the mid 1800 it was anything but friendly. Here they were isolated and secluded in a desperate effort not to let this disease...