Tag: faith
-
Keep Your Hand Off the Self-Destruct Button
-Fr. John Roche, SDB Have you ever gotten close to a victory and then stopped trying? Have you ever prepared long and hard for a special test only to skip the test or fail miserably? I think there are moments in all of our lives when we nearly reach a summit only to stumble at…
-
Apologetics
PDF – DB Study Guide – April & May 2012 Don Bosco’s Place in History: Apologetics & Catholic Faith Don Bosco’s Defense of the Church in his Anti-Waldensian apologetic The idea of writing a history of the Church may have occurred to Don Bosco at the Convitto, when he was engaged in catechizing his young people on…
-
Where are Our Young People?
-Fr. John Roche, SDB I will not be surprised if the present generation of young people coming of age will go down as the most researched and studied generation of any to date. For the most part, the studies are encouraging. The work of William Strauss and Neil Howe raised the bar with their study…
-
When Innocent Children are Caught in the Cross-Fire
-Fr. John Roche, SDB It happened again. An innocent child is caught in the cross-fire of urban gang wars and a community is rocked to the core. People of faith question deeply, ministers fumble for words, and the pain only widens. Where is God in all of this? I remember questioning God in a similar…
-
My God is NOT a Bean-Counter
-Fr. John Roche, SDB I am no longer sure what my Enneagram number is, nor do I remember the wing personalities associated with it. I have been an INFJ, an ENFJ and an INFP depending on the time and circumstances of my Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. And for all the practical good those tools of assessing…