Which Catholic Church do you find yourself most Comfortable with?

This Easter, think about why we are Christians, and for many, we practice that Christianity as Catholics.

Parishes across the country on Saturday evening will be welcoming new members into the faith and the church as an organization.

A friend and colleague who is now retired from the pastorate.  Fr. Charles Niblick, DMin, continues as a senior priest in the parish where he served for twenty years; he prefers to call himself a “pastor emeritus”. I just smile when he tells me that. He writes a weekly column for the parish bulletin, called Words For The Wind. At the liturgy I usually attend on weekends, you see many people reading the bulletin before Mass begins. I usually glance over and see what pages they are reading, and so many are reading his page.

What is really good about the way he framed the entire article is that it is applicable to cradle catholics as well as converts. What Catholic Church is the American catholic sitting in a pew looking for?  My gosh, just look around at some of our parishes and ask what version of Catholicism is being promoted?

Think about where Catholic Social Teachings weave into the article, and what role AI is playing in the conversation, as the engine of media, and how the medium is the message.

I often wonder what Thomas Merton, Joseph Cardijn, Louis Putz CSC, and Albert Nolan would think about the American Catholic Church.