irreversible truth

The bad news was spelt out in “Global Ageing 2010: An Irreversible Truth”, a report released by Standard & Poor’s, a ratings agency, on October 7th.

The story is about a young mother named Sandy Kaufman who must confront the irreversible truth that her 32-year-old husband is dying from multiple cancer of the marrow.

Such too is the state of mind of multitudes of good Catholics, perhaps the majority, who live and die in a simple, full, firm belief in all that the Church teaches, because she teaches it,—in the belief of the irreversible truth of whatever she defines and declares,—but who, as being far removed from Protestant and other dissentients, and having but little intellectual training, have never had the temptation to doubt, and never the opportunity to be certain.

Seeing him her eyes glowed life for moment, then dulled, as if recalling some bitter and irreversible truth.