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The Rev. Terrance W. Klein is a priest of the Diocese of Dodge City and author of Vanity Faith.
FaithThe Good Word
We use the word “God” to speak of that which is much too great for us to seek and to find. We cannot search for God to satisfy our curiosity. God must find us, or we are lost.
FaithThe Good Word
Our history remains hazardous, but it does not stand apart from God in Christ.
FaithThe Good Word
Perhaps hovering parents only display a drive shared by all: a desire to be our own saviors.
FaithThe Good Word
We are not angels. We cannot be spiritual without being religious. Why? Because we cannot be human without rituals.
FaithThe Good Word
We are never more ourselves than when we express ourselves.
FaithThe Good Word
Can anyone adequately define what it means to be an alcoholic? Someone who regularly abuses alcohol is physically ill because of biological, even genetic, factors. And, like anyone suffering from a psychological pathology, an alcoholic’s free will is typically curtailed. Finally, as with any sinner, there’s probably no alcoholic who doesn’t bear some moral responsibility for the condition.
FaithThe Good Word
We may not yet be saints, but this does not make our families any less sacred.
FaithThe Good Word
We make Christmas into something it is not and wonder why it disappoints.
FaithThe Good Word
The vulnerability of the Virgin still dispels distortions that we would create about her Son. He is not a figure of myth nor the creation of dogma. He is a man born to a woman, living in poverty.
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Our hearts cannot stay home. While they yet beat, they will wander and pine. They will brood. We cannot rip them from our breasts.