What was the fear that drove the disciples into the Upper Room on the day Jesus rose from the dead? Was it the Jews, eager to wipe them out just as they had succeeded in getting Christ crucified? Is that what sent them cowering behind closed doors? The account in John’s Gospel clearly says so….

“What are the signs that you would expect to find in a person that would enable you to judge whether or not they are good Catholics?” That is the first question I was asked when I went in to my first oral examination. I answered with uncharacteristic assertiveness, The smiles all around, the heads that…