I can’t tell you why God made you the way you are any more than I can tell you why he’s planted a carcinoma in my stomach to make me die painfully while other men...

If prayer fails I am in a greater darkness yet, not knowing whether I have presumed too much or believed too little.

I feel the life slipping out of me. When the pain comes, I cry out, but there is no prayer in it, only fear. I kneel and recite my office and the Rosary but the...

One solved nothing by waving the commandments like a bludgeon at people’s heads. There was no point in shouting damnation at a man who was already walking himself to hell on his own two feet....