Speak infallibly
And someone else might even
Hear infallibly
In its confident
Certainty, religion is
Often arrogant
At our journey’s end
We have neither scripture nor
Church – only Jesus
Where is certainty?
In scripture? In Church teaching?
Come Holy Spirit!
The humanists’ cry:
There is nothing when you die!
Will we be laughing?
Hindsight – the dodgy
Ability to condemn
Ourselves for learning
Dissent in the Church?
Not ordained by God! What next…
Open government?
All justice should be
Rehabilitative. If
Not, then it’s vengeance
Woman’s right to choose!
It sounds so good – somewhat like:
Buy now, pay later…
He who lives by the
Letter of the law, will see
The law pass away
In order to hate,
A man only needs to call
His brother: stranger
In order to love,
A man only needs to call
The stranger: brother
The Church exists to
Build the Kingdom. As such it
Too will pass away
Hunger makes a thief
Of a good man. Plenty makes
The thief appear good
Fundamentalists
Are so sure of their God, they
Don’t listen to Him
Fundamentalists:
Firm believers in a god
Forged by their anger
Nothing in life is
Free except that which is the
Most precious – God’s love
Capitalism:
How to ensure that the poor
Are with us always
The Catholic Church
Should be God’s light to the world.
Who controls the switch?
Truth will set you free.
Catholics like to gift wrap
Truth with tradition
To read the Bible
Literally is like dis-
mantling Rubik’s cube
The one who is right
Is either a fraud or the
Most humble of men
Prayer mechanics:
Osmosis – God from within,
Prayer changes men
Bible – two levels:
As personal love letter;
As Church discernment
Salvation: finding
Out what God was up to when
He created me
Christian witness:
God at our fingertips or
The other way round?
Our hearts yearn for God
Like furled flowers beneath the
Forest canopy
You are immortal;
With an endless succession
Of present moments
Has hell been consigned
To limbo, and has limbo
In fact gone to hell?
“Let the strong get on!”
The reality is: the
Least go to the wall
In my prayer life,
Lord God, I am a failure.
Does that make You one?
Casting God in our
Own mold, we solidify
Him through prejudice
“Move on from the past!”
Usually said by those who
Have known advantage
“Don’t forget the past!”
Usually said by those who
Have known injustice
“No surrender!” The
Louder the shout, the deeper
The sense of self-doubt
Human hearts hunger
For unending bliss. Only
God can provide this
“To live in the now
Is to lose the fear of death.”
And begin to breathe
in memory of a great teacher – Fr Eric Doyle OFM
If there is no right,
Then there is no hope, and no
Justice for the least