It’s hard to know how to live without hope. Is it even possible?
Terrance Klein
The Rev. Terrance W. Klein is a priest of the Diocese of Dodge City and author of Vanity Faith.
This Advent, don’t just be spiritual. Be religious.
Religion is what happens when spirituality moves from speculation and desire into participation and commitment.
Why is Pontius Pilate in our creed?
A mystic declaration links all its cosmography to a concrete moment in history.
Knowing how the story ends makes surrendering to death possible
You can cherish life and surrender it when you know that it is never insignificant, that your story matters, that you exist to love the author of our tale.
Love does not calculate. It just loves.
Jesus does not draw attention to the widow and her “two small coins” because he wants you to do some good work or to donate a certain percentage of your resources.
On All Souls Day, we come face to face with the least comprehensible part of life: death.
We experience the death of others—but not as they do. We only know that they are gone, and that fact alone is nigh impossible to comprehend.
To understand the communion of saints, look to the abundance of nature
The utter multitude of souls created and redeemed by God is necessary to imagine even a fraction of God’s plenitude.
Afraid of silent prayer? You’re not alone.
Many of us avoid contemplative prayer because we are more afraid of God’s non-existence than we are sure that we will experience God’s presence.
What does a Catholic priest think about ‘Midnight Mass’?
What does a Catholic priest make of “Midnight Mass”? Is the Netflix show anti-Catholic?
Lord, deliver us from lying to ourselves
God is more than we can comprehend, and sin limits what we can understand.
