I remember my Boomer father telling me “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” I’ll never understand how people can overlook the damage words can cause to the soul.

Experience deepens our understanding and is also a foundation to our understanding. Yet experience can easily be misinterpreted. We need good discernment to guide the way we interpret our experiences. This is why a systematic approach is taken up by the Church as regards scripture, dogma, spirituality, and so forth.

A man might experience grace and think of himself as sinless in God’s eyes as a result. He may look at others and consider himself greater because God wouldn’t grant such a gift to …

Last Feb I casually posted this neck stretch on Instagram (that I thought everyone knew 🤷‍♀️) and it blew up in a way I couldn’t imagine. It’s now been viewed over 8 million times 🫣😬🤣 and has brought so many wonderful people into my world.

So give it a go, it’s a pretty lovely stretch. (Though it’s not actually magic, it’s just an up…

Here's Ronald Reagan on Tariffs:

"You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being." Evelyn Waugh

So yay my 26th anniversary of entering the Church.