The Road to Happiness: Have You Found It?

I've been re-reading the Masterful Monk series by Owen Francis Dudley which explores the "problem of human happiness." Interesting phrase isn't it; human happiness described as "a problem." But isn't it? Our founding fathers included the "pursuit of happiness" among mankind's unalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence:

Do You Want to be Happy for the Rest of Your Life? There's a Way!

Owen Francis Dudley

I've been re-reading Owen Francis Dudley's series on the Masterful Monk which is recommended by Fr. John Hardon in his Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan. Dudley was an Anglican priest who converted to the Catholic Church in 1915 and was ordained a Catholic priest in 1917. Like Anselm Thornton, who became the Masterful Monk of the series, but was a doctor, he served in the British Army (as a chaplain) during World War I and, again like Thornton, was wounded. 

Dudley's series addresses the problem of human happiness. It explores the meaning of suffering and exposes the moral quandary after the war when many rejected the belief that a good God could allow the horrors of trench warfare, poisoned gas, etc. that marked that horrible waste of human life.