Each issue carries an imprimatur from the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. Reprinting prohibited How Heaven Transforms Our Lives by Peter Kreeft A 13th-century traveler came upon two men dragging heavy stones down a muddy road. One was singing, the other was cursing. He then asked the singing man the same question.
Destination makes all the difference.
Or, as the philosopher Aristotle put it, a thing s end, or purpose, is what determines everything else about it. Even as late as the first six decades of this century, all American Catholics knew these answers as instinctively as they knew how to breathe. The old Baltimore Catechism began with them. A. God made me. God made me to know him, to love him and to serve him in this world, and to be happy with him forever in the next.