Voices
The Rev. Terrance W. Klein is a priest of the Diocese of Dodge City and author of Vanity Faith.
The Good Word
The last day of life is like those that precede it. Either we open ourselves to the mystery or we withdraw into the citadel of the self.
The Good Word
To pray is always to call down the eternal into the temporal. That is what we do today for our dead.
The Good Word
This feast day is good time to remember that there is really only one thing about which we should be anxious.
The Good Word
In the end—at the end—the human heart has only one plea. It wants to live. It knows that it was not created to go down into the darkness.
The Good Word
Justice and peace are of God. To receive them, the depths of the human must be laid open.
The Good Word
That world is no larger than the people and concerns you care about. Everything else is only the wallpaper of your world.
The Good Word
Vows exist to foster life, to defend it, to allow it to flourish.
The Good Word
If heaven admitted shame, Clem and Richard Neuhaus might still blush at the separation they chose to create between themselves on earth.
The Good Word
Jesus went to the cross, a terribly adult reality, with the trust and the resiliency of a child.