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Terrance Klein

The Rev. Terrance W. Klein is a priest of the Diocese of Dodge City and author of Vanity Faith.

Articles by Terrance Klein
In All Things
Sharing in the Gift of God’s Passion
Terrance Klein
If one has been the victim of a profoundly evil act how does one mdash or rather how should one mdash respond By a profoundly evil act I do not mean that one is simply the recipient of some unkindness that chafes but is quickly healed but truly the recipient of a life-altering injustice someth
The Good Word
Being Catholic--'A Call, Not a Claim'
Terrance Klein
The British philosopher Gillian Rose spent her brief life arguing against a basic presumption of modern life one that goes something like this now that almost everyone can be heard and now that we realize how profoundly we disagree about the most important aspects and values in life let rsquo s
In All Things
Being Catholic--'A Call, Not a Claim'
Terrance Klein
The British philosopher Gillian Rose spent her brief life arguing against a basic presumption of modern life one that goes something like this now that almost everyone can be heard and now that we realize how profoundly we disagree about the most important aspects and values in life let rsquo s
The Good Word
Suffering One's Cross
Terrance Klein
ldquo I need advice about my marriage rdquo nbsp She was certainly direct brushing aside the question I had proffered to open our conversation about her four children all of whom were in our parochial school nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp ldquo Okay Tell me about your marriage rdquo ldquo
The Good Word
Crossing Lines
Terrance Klein
Maps have border lines The earth itself does not Human life demands drawing boundaries but God rsquo s life knows none While we live we constantly claim what we consider to be our own and we define ourselves both by who we are mdash and who we are not If religion were entirely divinely w
In All Things
Crossing Lines
Terrance Klein
Maps have border lines The earth itself does not Human life demands drawing boundaries but God rsquo s life knows none While we live we constantly claim what we consider to be our own and we define ourselves both by who we are mdash and who we are not If religion were entirely divinely wrough
FaithIn All Things
The Stormy Life of Muriel Spark
Terrance Klein

What do you do when your education, at James Gillespie’s High School for Girls, only equips you to teach secondary English or to work in a department store, and yet you’re educated enough to feel the lugubrious weight of Edinburgh skies? If you’re Muriel Camberg, you take the first ticket out of Scotland, even if that means moving to Rhodesia as the wife of Sidney Oswald Spark, who later turns out to be a manic depressive, prone to violent outbursts. Having exchanged dark skies for wild savannah winds, and now the mother of a child, where do you find safety from the storm?

The Good Word
In Rouen Cathedral
Terrance Klein
Historian David McCullough rsquo s newest offering The Greater Journey Americans in Paris includes a roadside stop between harbor and metropolis in Rouen to see its cathedral He writes The Americans had never beheld anything remotely comparable It was their first encounter with a Gothic ma
Television
Chicken Little Gets Her Gun: TNTs 'Falling Skies'
Terrance Klein

Catch a glimpse of America’s ballistic soul on 'Falling Skies,' the popular new sci-fi series on TNT.

In All Things
A Truth Universally Acknowledged
Terrance Klein
It is a truth universally acknowledged that an academic in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a book And that doesn rsquo t mean a Kindle or an iPad We need books whose pages we can fold whose lines we can mark in whose margins we can correct the author with our own quips That rs