Who Am I?

My story is pretty typical. I’m a cradle Catholic who went to thirteen years of Catholic school. I went to church regularly as a kid, irregularly when I went away to college, then I became more serious and devote once my child was born.

Things became more serious, in both senses of the word, when my daughter was diagnosed with an incurable disease, Metachromatic Leukodystrophy. I started an online Novena, for friends and family from all over to pray for her. I wrote about different pilgrimages we took, to Lourdes and a Padre Pio shrine, things like that.

People told me they liked my writing, and I should do more. I have no formal training in theology, but I do read and listen a lot. I decided to start this Substack as a way of thinking about God. And as someone once said, “No thought is complete until it is written down.”1

All thoughts completed here are my own, unless attributed. If I write anything unorthodox2 or heretical, please do let me know. Any discrepancy between me and the Catechism is due to my own ignorance, so take your priest’s word over mine.

I’m just an amateur theologian, after all.