Note: On Tuesdays and some Sundays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. It’s not fair. It’s not fair that that wonderful family member who prays, serves, and tithes has cancer, and the awful person who just got sent off to… Continue reading God’s Not Fair
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Returning Catholics FAQs: When Bad Things Happen to Good People
On Mondays, I answer questions frequently asked by those considering a return to the Catholic Church. How do I know this stuff? I was away for more than 30 years myself, and am the co-author of When They Come Home: Ways to Welcome Returning Catholics, a book for pastors and parish leaders interested in this ministry.… Continue reading Returning Catholics FAQs: When Bad Things Happen to Good People
God’s Just Not Fair
Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. It doesn’t sound fair, does it, the pronouncement in today’s lectionary first reading from Ezekiel 18 that someone who was good and became bad will die, despite that past goodness… while someone… Continue reading God’s Just Not Fair