Light On Dark Water

This is one of those things that’s so good it makes me want to jump up and down. You have to read the whole thing, but here’s a taste:

I knew there was some sharp cruel distance between myself and the world around me. Then I found that the Catholic Church was where I turned in the lock, where I turned upside down, and the world unlocked around me.

…there are two important ways in which the claim that the Church provides "answers" is false. First, if you are "seeking," most often what you need most is to know which questions to ask. I often say that my conversion was prompted because I accepted the Catholic answers to three questions: Why is poetry important? Why is sex important? Why is justice important?

…And yet it would be more accurate to say that my conversion was prompted by my acknowledgment of these three as the questions I needed to ask.

…To be Catholic is to accept that no answers in this life will ever be adequate, but the Catholic questions and the Catholic ways of living are better and truer than alternatives.

…To be a Catholic is to accept certain questions as things to be lived through rather than to be answered.

I repeat, you have to read the whole thing, here, at Inside Catholic.

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