Author: Henry Schliff

Children of the baby-boomers will remember Rob Reiner’s melodrama A Few Good Men, and that memorable scene when Jack Nicolson’s character thunders in righteous indignation, “You can’t handle the truth!” God knows that we surely cannot handle “the Truth” but if we are being honest with ourselves better yet to say we cannot handle Truth,… Continue reading Harsh & Dreadful

St. Clare of Assisi How do you see yourself? Personal image has grown to such importance in life that it seems almost essential to how we function. Individuals strive to conform to a manufactured ideal created by themselves or imposed by society. Youth are encouraged by media to change their physical bodies to match a… Continue reading Time to Take a Look in the Mirror

St. Peter in Prison, Rembrandt van Rijn The moment of my greatest shame is the recognition that I have allowed my gaze to fall from God and given my heart to the fleeting pleasures of this world through sins of desire, or rage, or most often, pride. That does not mean that I walk around… Continue reading The Most Precious Gift, Shame

Fra Angelico, St. Dominic Adoring the Crucifixion The problem of evil or the problem of human suffering is one of the most common and powerful objections brought against theistic religion and most profoundly against Christianity which insists that God’s very existence is Love. From my own conversations and the debates I have heard between theists… Continue reading The Problem

Cristo Pantocrátor of St. Catherine's Monastery Sinai Every Christian has these words indelibly etched into their minds, “God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.” (Jn 3:16) As Catholics the world over celebrate the Feast of the… Continue reading The Verdict