@PhilCatholic My mistake. I was led astray by the ads. A very good friend of mine is a fellow speaker at the conference, Matthew Moore from Corpus Christi. Say hello to him. You are frequently mentioned in our discussions because of the “natural desire to see God issue.”
“The ascetic is an artist who prunes away the irrelevant so that the end may be achieved.”
—Frederick Wilhelmsen (1923–1996), Hilaire Belloc, No Alienated Man: A Study in Christian Integration, p. 2.
@yunghogarthian The watershed distinction is between the physical order and the much more noble moral order. Ultimately, physical suffering and moral evil are incommensurable.