Father Ron Rolheiser

In 1986, Czechoslovakian novelist Ivan Klima published a series of autobiographical essays titled, “My First Loves.” These essays describe some of his moral struggles as a young agnostic seeking for answers without any explicit moral framework within which to frame those struggles.

In his autobiography, Nikos Kazantzakis shares how in his youth he was driven by a restlessness that had him searching for something he could never quite define.

A colleague once challenged Pierre Teilhard de Chardin with this question. You believe that good will ultimately triumph over evil; well, what if we blow up the world with an atomic bomb, what happens to goodness then?

How do we search for God?

Lying is the most pernicious of evils, the most dangerous of sins, the worst of blasphemes, and the one sin that can be unforgivable. Perhaps we need to be reminded of that today, given our present culture where we are in danger of losing the very idea of reality and truth. Nothing is more dangerous.