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A man of the theatre came to see me a few years ago.

And his reason was this.

He said that one night after a show he was talking to a number of theatrical people

backstage. And they said to him, you are a Catholic, aren't you? He said, I used to be.

But he said, I've done considerable reading and comparative religion, psychology,

psychiatry, and metaphysics, and I had to give it up. Nobody could answer my questions.

Someone said, why don't you go to Bishop Sheen, have him answer your questions.

So he said, here I am.

And I have a number of questions I would like to put to you.

And I said to him, now, before you ask a single question,

you go back to the hotel where you were living, get rid of that chorus girl you're living with, and then come back and ask the question.

And he threw up his hands and laughed and he said oh certainly i'm trying to fool you just like i

fool myself that's the reason i saw him not very long ago, and I said, well, you are still off the track, aren't you?

He said, yes, but I have not thrown away the map.

Now here was a perfect example of someone covering up conscience.

And it is of conscience that we would speak.

But conscience carries on with us a kind of an unbearable repartee.

We are very different from the rest of creatures, regardless of how much we insist on similarities.

What makes us different is that we can reflect turn back upon ourselves.

No stone can ever turn a part of itself

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