By David Warren, The Catholic Thing - Demands are made upon us. We are told what is true, and right, and beautiful: demands in themselves that will, directly or indirectly, determine our course. Or be rejected, of our free will, for they imply a life of holiness from which we, as nature’s animal, may swinishly rebel... The demands are inconvenient. This can radically pain us. We are asked to give up our narcissism, our “ego,” upon which our survival seems to have been based, and to embrace something that was from the beginning presented as immortal.