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John 18:37-38: “So Pilate said to him, ‘Then you are a king?’ Jesus answered, ‘You say I am a king. For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.’ Pilate said to him, ‘What is truth?’” (photo: Antonio Ciseri, “Ecce Homo” (1871) / Public Domain)
By Joseph Pearce, National Catholic Register, November 19, 2024
Joseph Pearce Joseph Pearce is Visiting Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University and a Visiting Fellow of Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (Merrimack, New Hampshire). The author of more than 30 books, he is editor of the St. Austin Review, series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions, senior instructor with Homeschool Connections, and senior contributor at the Imaginative Conservative and Crisis Magazine. …
The end of the world is when we die but the end of the world is not the end of us.
Is it possible to summarize the meaning of life in a thousand words or so? Can the key questions that have preoccupied great philosophers for millennia be encapsulated in the idiomatic nutshell? The answer is yes. And the reason is that the key questions have been answered with authority by the Author of Life Himself.
What is truth? Who is man? Who are we? And where are we going?
The first of these questions was asked by Pontius Pilate in his native Latin: Quid est veritas? It was asked of Jesus Christ. He refrained from answering Pilate directly but gave the answer to his disciples. …
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