Purity of Heart is Needed to See God By: Msgr. Charles PopeI have mentioned here before that my mentor and teacher, Fr. Francis Martin, once asked, “Do you know what is the biggest obstacle for us in understanding the Word of God?†I was expecting him to answer his own question by saying something like, “We don’t know enough Greek,†or “We haven’t studied the historical critical method carefully enough.†But he looked around the room and then said, “The biggest obstacle we have to understanding the Word of God is our sin.â€He went on to encourage us in the discipline of study...