I am not a good person. Or at least, I’m not always sure that I am: what is a good person, after all? In a sense, this question demands that I consider some of the qualities that I feel may be lacking in myself, and it has no easy answer. How can I make any…

I cried at the end of La La Land. Sue me. How could you not in that final scene? But for those of you who haven’t seen it, allow me to explain. La La Land is, of course, a love story. An aspiring actress and a struggling jazz pianist meet by fate, so it seems,…

I used to hate my philosophy degree. Especially after I graduated, struggling to find work, I loathed the fact that I studied philosophy, and why? Because in all honesty, when you’re that kind of person, your life is, as my mum says, “written in italics“. Life is never easy, but studying the humanities will simply…

I left home for the first time when I was eighteen years old. I was quite excited about it. Not that I didn’t like my home, but I was never too fond of my hometown. It was small. It never felt like much of anything, and I can remember dreaming of the city, which I…

The other day, I was sitting in on a confirmation class, listening to a young and charismatic seminarian explain the idea of belief in God. He expressed an overload of ideas and sentiments, some of which I would say I can relate to or that played an important role in my own “pilgrimage”. And every…

“Do you believe in fate, Paul?” Not as such, no. If by fate you mean this idea that certain things are destined to happen no matter what we do, then I do not believe in it. For instance, perhaps it was fated that I would always study philosophy or convert to Catholicism, or that I…

A friend of mine went through a breakup recently, and when I asked what happened, he told me that—among some concerns about how compatible they are (e.g., sense of humour, etc)—she said that she was looking for someone who would inspire her to love the Lord in everything that they do. I’ll translate for any…

Last last year, my spiritual director recommended I read God’s Voice Within written by Fr Mark Thibodeaux SJ. I practically devoured it, and since then I have been adamant in saying that this is the book I wish I’d read earlier in the year because, for me, 2022 was a year of discernment in epic…

Continued from The Ouroboros & Philosophy (I) & Reason Enough (II) What good reasons did I have for accepting Christianity in the first place? Of course, I have more than one reason, but I’ll start with this: Christianity is the faith of many martyrs. A Faith of Martyrs What initially piqued my interest in Christianity was…