As I am sure I have mentioned ad nauseum, I spend a lot of my day driving around. Much of this is spent in the northern regions of Vermont and New Hampshire. In this part of New England as in others parts of the country I am sure, there are many old barns, some still …
Author: Paul Roy
Finding God in All Things
I may have mentioned that make my living driving around and have done so for the last fifteen years. Yesterday, during my travels I was in northern Vermont and New Hampshire. It was an absolutely beautiful late summer day and I would have liked to have been able to stop and "smell the roses" for …
How are You Spending Your Talents
I hate to admit it but I am not always the smartest person in the room, especially when it comes to my faith, theology, the catechism, and especially interpreting the Bible. Sometimes passages will speak to me (sometimes they even yell at me) and other times they make no sense to me at all, or …
Enter Through the Narrow Gate
How many times do we stray from the straight path? How many of us don't even now what the straight path is? If we don't know what the straight path is, how can we follow it? I think back to my past, when I strayed from the straight path and I realize I didn't know …
Kicking God to the Curb
One of my favorite Catholic talk show hosts talked about a recent Gallup poll yesterday that reported on recent trends in the acceptability of things that used to be considered immoral and now are accepted as moral. (see Gallup poll here) I did write a little about it in my other blog, the more political one, …
The Safest Road to Hell
Isn't that the truth? The road to hell begins smoothly, you drift a little to one side or the other and you don't even realize it. As Lewis says, there aren't any signposts, nothing to let you know you are going the wrong way. The Evil One won't post signs for you, he will just let …
Where There is a Will
When I look back at my journey over the last three or so years, there are times when I think I have made so much progress and then there are days, like yesterday, when I realize I still have a long way to go. I will get into what happened yesterday a little later. One of …
The Log in Your Eye
It seems my last post has created quite a stir around here. I have heard through the grapevine that my ex may have taken offense to my remarks about one of the causes for our divorce. First, I will say that I am surprised, but also happy she reads what I write. Of course I …
What’s in it for Me
Back in November of 2013, Pope Francis wrote an apostolic exhortation titled "Evangelii Gaudium" which I believe means the "Joy of the Gospel." In it the Pope exhorts Catholics to spread the Gospel to all. This is part of what has been called "The New Evangelization." One of the problems I encounter when I read …
Good Fish Bad Fish
Are you a good fish, or a bad fish? If you ever spend much time watching various reality shows, like the one about the crab fishermen or the one where they go after all kinds of fish, you see either at the end of the day or after they bring the nets up, the crew …
The Wayward Catholic 