Do we ever like shortcuts. Do we ever like quick and easy. But this desire is not limited to our waistlines and bank accounts. We want it for our souls as well.
On a feast day commemorating the authority Jesus gave to St. Peter and his successors -- the popes -- Pope Francis created 19 new cardinals in the presence of retired Pope Benedict XVI.
Last year I was in Oxford and had the privilege of meeting Priscilla Tolkien–J.R.R.Tolkien’s daughter. I commented on her father’s work and said I reckoned he was the best Catholic evangelist of the twentieth century. She asked why I thought that. “Because he kept alive through a work of imagination a Christian view of reality.”