Early in my return to the Church I began binge watching The Journey Home on YouTube, drawn to the love stories of former atheists, New Agers, Protestants, Buddhists, Muslims, and, like me, once-fallen-away Catholics, all hungry now to learn and grow in their faith. The stories covered a lot of ground, but often enough to confirm a point or settle a question, the host or a guest would agree on one source called “the Catechism,”[1] and soon enough I wanted a copy for myself. And then it...

My mother used to say that a child needs to be the apple of someone’s eye, and for me, that was Grandma Daisy—my dad’s mother. A devout...

Four years ago, Mass Confusion: Why I Rejected The Church For So Long And What Changed , was published, a book about my forty year...