christian living on Appetites

Pope John Paul I recounted a story about Jonathan Swift and his servant. One morning at an inn, Swift asked his servant why his boots hadn’t been cleaned. The servant replied, “I didn’t see the point,...

We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great. That is the inconsolable heartburn, the lifelong disquietude of having been made...

Satan, like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.

TV is imago populi—all of society’s trendy appetites incarnated into visible form and broadcasted.