Fr. Rick Thomas, S.J.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us that we need to find the right balance between honesty and discretion. “Truthfulness keeps to the just mean between what ought to […]

Jesus warns his disciples to be on guard for the yeast of the Pharisees which is hypocrisy. The more people around, the more the temptation there is to hypocrisy. The […]

Jesus prays that we be consecrated to the truth. To be consecrated means to be set apart, appointed for, dedicated to. Just like we have bowls and knives that are […]

Jesus warns against false prophets that are wolves in sheep’s clothing. He gives the example of Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5. They lied by withholding the actual amount of […]

Jesus said of Nathanael that he was without guile, someone “in whom there was no deceit.” Nathanael filled his mind with truth; because of that, he could recognize right away […]

God builds with agape love and truth; the devil uses falsehood and lies as his building blocks. The more falsehood, the happier the devil is because he works with lies […]

Jesus deals in the truth, and the enemy deals in falsehoods and lies. Which side do you want to be on?

Sacramentals are visible things used for a spiritual effect greater than the power in the thing itself. Jesus used sacramentals in His ministry. For example, when he was healing the […]

Begins with salvation history – how God created everything, seen and unseen. He created the angels. Some rebelled, and ever after that, there have been two realms or kingdoms. That’s […]

We all had a ticket to hell until Jesus died on the cross for us. There is no joy in hell, only sorrow, regret, pain, fire. That’s what God wants to save us from. Each of us must make up our own mind: do we want to go to heaven or to hell? To go to heaven we need to believe in Jesus.

John 3:16