The Seven Pillars of CatholicismThe Seven Pillars of Catholicism is the product of decades of my own personal spiritual growth and development -- something that will always be a work-in-progress. While this book can be useful to both Catholics and non-Catholics, it is primarily a Roman Catholic philosophy of spirituality.

The driving concept is that we have no lasting city here on earth, and that worldly attachments, human and material, keep us trapped and locked into this very temporary existence. We are here only in transit, yet

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we are totally absorbed in the ride rather than the destination. If we are flying across the ocean to an all-expense-paid vacation to Bora Bora, do we care more about the plane trip or Bora Bora? Would we focus on the journey and forget about Bora Bora? Of course, not. We are on a journey to a far more pleasant (and eternal) destination than Bora Bora, yet we hang on to the journey as if it were all there is.

We are too wrapped up in and consumed with the things of this world. We all, at least in the United States, have too much “stuff.” The extreme of this has been made the topic of a Reality TV series called “Hoarders.” These people are obsessed with their possessions. Their possessions possess them. Yet a lot of us fall into that category to some extent. I’ve personally known people who have gone into near meltdown when they have to move from a house they have occupied for twenty or thirty years and the sudden realization of how much junk they have accumulated hits them like a freight train going downhill backwards. It’s insane and, yes, it is a form of insanity.