Will Christ manifest himself and end history? Assuredly yes, if you believe in him and what he said. When will this happen and how? Even in this atomic age, we still do not know.
Terrance Klein
The Rev. Terrance W. Klein is a priest of the Diocese of Dodge City and author of Vanity Faith.
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Our lives on earth end. Our souls don’t.
The people we loved and who we became because we loved, these shall not pass.
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Why Edith Stein is the perfect saint for All Souls’ Day (and a world plagued by antisemitism)
On this Feast of All Souls, let us remember “our people,” living for God and for each other. We can live for both, and die for both.
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What does it mean to become a saint?
The Solemnity of All the Saints reveals the relationship between who we are and who we should become, between time and eternity, between ourselves and the saints.
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Lessons from William Faulkner and Zacchaeus the tax collector
We neither chose nor fashioned the wounded and scary worlds in which we live. And this is the meaning of the sin which the Catholic Church calls “original.” We ourselves are wounded before we ever set out to reject or to wound.
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When Christ became a Father
The cross of Christ appears as his abandonment by the Father. Our crosses do as well, but it is only in the cross that we discover that God is abandonment and outpouring love.
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When you pray, someone is always listening
Our prayers would be immeasurably improved if we truly believed that we were indeed talking to someone.
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Borders are our lines, not God’s.
We cannot help but draw dividing lines, but the Gospel wants us to know that they are our lines, not God’s. They are a consequence of sin’s entrance in the world.
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Like Dorothy in Oz, we can always return home
The way to believe in the vision is to immerse ourselves ever more deeply in the life of the vision keeper, the mystery that we call the church.
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The poor are right in front of us. Why do we fail to see them?
What grace must come, and by what means, for us to see more of the world as it truly is?