Heaven, God and priesthood

The late John O'Gorman was a Dominican. He died of a heart attack in 2002. John taught mathematics in Newbridge Collge before going on to teach computer science at Bolton Street, Maynooth College and UL.
John resigned his priesthood in the mid-1980s having spent over 30 years a priest. He remained a Dominican friar. He was someone of great scholarship. John was a man of integrity, who had a keen sense of what it meant to be a Dominican.

A Google search on John will find inspiring comments made by his students at University of Limerick.

Often asked what heaven was he would always reply that heaven was 'a place' for those who wanted to be there.

What's below is a piece this bloger came upon - heaven, God and priesthood. It makes for good reading.

Heaven is all about God and being in God's presence. If you don't believe in God ... well if you go with the mystics then the language about God becomes radically negative (even 'he is not', Ps.Dionysius), they are also great critics of spoof and holy stuff and the deceptions of theological language ... I don't know that you can believe a little, though, I think you either believe or you don't because the will is involved, you decide to believe or not to believe, but faith is always a darkness for the mind and people try to make it 'certain' in ways that it cannot be by definition ... hence fundamentalism, sectarianism, faith that persecutes others ... my parents were people of integrity, obedient to the Church though wondering about it, whether they had been 'had' ... I think 'mystification' of the priesthood needs to be challenged ... people seem to forget very easily that it only has meaning within the sacramental order and is no guarantee of moral or spiritual 'superiority' ...