Fr. Scott Haynes St. Cyprian of Carthage, writing on the sin of envy, gives us a sentence that seems to have been written for every age in which grace is resented: “It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God. It is a calamity without remedy to hate the happy.”¹ He is not speaking merely of irritation, rivalry, or wounded pride. He is uncovering a deep spiritual disorder: the heart that suffers because another soul belongs to God, the heart that

Rev. F. Quirijnen, S.J., explains what perfect contrition is and what it is not. It is the humble of heart who have sorrow for their sins.

There are passages in Sacred Scripture that seem almost to tremble with divine sorrow. One senses in them not merely commandments being broken, but the very order of creation wounded by human rebellion.

Many, in explaining the Trinity, have drifted into error. Following the magisterium of the Church, we avoid wrong teaching.

Process theology tries to make God more compassionate by making Him less sovereign, but in doing so it departs from Catholic doctrine on divine omnipotence, immutability, creation from nothing, providence, Christology, and redemption.