The Contemporary Catholic
Catholic means "universal," so it is fitting that Ignatian spirituality asks us to find God in all things. For the twenty-first century Catholic, this is a radical way of life to which we are being called. We at once live in a world that thrives on serving the self and a world in which we also witness incredible suffering. Yet our faith demands that we both recognize and resist the evils of our world in an uphill battle to turn this City of Man into the City of God. The Catholic life, then, is a paradoxical one that we must accept with what faith we can salvage.
These are my musings, anyway, and I intend to share them--from the mundane to the philosophical--in the hopes of reconciling these (seemingly) conflicting demands made upon the contemporary Catholic. This site will also be, I hope, a journey of sorts for me, as I come to unearth an understanding of how God is calling us to live lives of virtue, faith, and love in a world that is (as I'm more and more frequently hearing it referred to) sinful and broken . . .
. . . though, as I must acknowledge, it may be a knot worthy of God to untie.
These are my musings, anyway, and I intend to share them--from the mundane to the philosophical--in the hopes of reconciling these (seemingly) conflicting demands made upon the contemporary Catholic. This site will also be, I hope, a journey of sorts for me, as I come to unearth an understanding of how God is calling us to live lives of virtue, faith, and love in a world that is (as I'm more and more frequently hearing it referred to) sinful and broken . . .
. . . though, as I must acknowledge, it may be a knot worthy of God to untie.