If you are wondering about those who lead you, ask yourself: Do they call you to something higher, something that demands your own growth?
Terrance Klein
The Rev. Terrance W. Klein is a priest of the Diocese of Dodge City and author of Vanity Faith.
Advent is a time to face your fears
Praying in a time of fear is a bit like learning to ride a bicycle. It goes against the grain of fear itself.
The Solemnity of Christ the King tells us time has a destiny
Something that happened more than 2,000 years ago will draw all of time, all of the longings of the human heart, into itself.
Of all God’s creatures, why do only humans worry about the future?
In the life of every long-lived man and woman, the future flows into promise, then fades into peril and panic.
100 years after the Great War, what can we say to an exhausted world?
The whole world may not be at war, but sometimes our personal worlds do collapse.
Catholics have a purgatory (and imagination) problem
On the Feast of All Souls, we recall how different God is from us, how wonderfully alien the halls of heaven are.
St. Monica’s gift to her son, St. Augustine: A love for the Eucharist
When we gather for Eucharist, we gather with Christ and with all of his saints.
What kind of God do martyrs die for?
No one dies for God as an unspeakable mystery, as simply the word we use for the openness of the human spirit.
Why is it so hard for us to show mercy?
Because we are not free. Because we live under the tyranny of terror that sin uses to enslave us. We think that mercy will weaken us, destroy our position of strength.
Being white and poor does not mean you’re trash
Our faith tells us that Christ chose to suffer on our behalf and that when we choose to do the same, in the service of others, we imitate Jesus in our own lives.
