What Good Is Faith That Doesn’t Challenge Us?
The Catholic Church, to which I belong, has just finished a meeting of church leaders in Rome called the Synod on the Family. It started on Oct. 4 and finished ...
Lessons from a Baseball Team
Many of you may not be sports fans, but this post is not about sports. It’s not even about my favorite baseball team, the Kansas City Royals, who – even ...
Cramming Religion Down Your Throat
Back in 1983, Joseph Girzone, a Carmelite priest, wrote his first book. It was self-published and his advertising was by word-of-mouth, but the book became wildly popular and was eventually ...
What Its Like to Be Us
I grew up in a loving family but we never said we loved each other and rarely showed it physically. That all changed for our family, and I believe for many families, ...
God as Magician
I traveled to Europe as a young seminary student and had my first encounters with non-believers. They awakened a sense of the fragility of my faith with which I have ...
Should a Skeptic Pray?
As a missionary years ago among the Aymara people of Bolivia, I was struck by the popularity of a statue in the church I served. It was by far the ...