About this Blog

I grew up as a sort of half-assed cradle Catholic.  I attended ten years of religious education and sacramental preparation without cracking a catechism once, but with plenty of guided meditations and assurances of God’s love.

I was active in my college’s Catholic community, but drifted away after my relationship with one of its leaders became physical and then soured.  I lapsed into an uneasy atheism for a long time–intellectually it made sense, but there remained a God-shaped hole in my heart and something missing from my life that I couldn’t quite name and that therapy and psychoactive medications couldn’t quite fill.  The Church wanted me back, despite my attempts to hide, and during Lent 2007 I made the decision to return, and to find a local parish to call home.

I have other blogs, and I have a wonderful circle of Livejournal friends, but I can no longer sort these issues out in those blogs.   The majority of my friends scorn religion and have no interest in either marriage or children.  I feel terribly alone sometimes as I try to adjust to my new identity.  The alignment of geeky sensibilities, progressive politics, and Catholicism are rarer than I had thought.

3 Comments

  1. Fidei Defensor said,

    May 1, 2007 at 5:44 am

    “I feel terribly alone sometimes as I try to adjust to my new identity. The alignment of geeky sensibilities, progressive politics, and Catholicism are rarer than I had thought.”

    Well you may not have much company, but you have good company, as you have mentioned before, Stephen Colbert. That guy has plenty of geeky sensibilites (his obsession with lord of the rings), and he manages to blend his progressive politics with faithful and even proud expressions of Catholicism on commedy central which is notorious for its immoral and ammoral programing.

  2. Joan said,

    May 3, 2007 at 7:57 am

    I find it particularly ironic that he’ll tear into beauty pageants or Girls Gone Wild….and they’re one of the sponsors of the show. Sigh. Thank Science for TiVo.

  3. Jen B said,

    November 14, 2007 at 4:53 pm

    I have other blogs, and I have a wonderful circle of Livejournal friends, but I can no longer sort these issues out in those blogs. The majority of my friends scorn religion and have no interest in either marriage or children.

    This sounds like my life only throw in family, too.

    I enjoy your blog keep pushing through the darkness.

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