Welcome to Catholic Catholic!

One person’s thoughts, one person’s preoccupations with faith, culture, family life, and the constant search for meaning and survival methods, from the mundane and logical to the exotic and far-fetched.

A Catholic is a specific individual with a long, elaborate history, a comfortable place in society, having readily at hand plenty of answers to questions and examples of lives lived well. He also has that word “catholic” as an invitation to explore the entire range of human experience. Everyone can claim that in common.

A catholic Catholic is at home in the world and is happy to claim all of life, all of history, all of humanity, as home. She might be registered as a parishioner in a parish, but she can go to any church, any temple, any place of worship, and find something familiar.

He chooses to remain Catholic, but realizes that, had he been born elsewhere, he would almost certainly be something else.

She can say, “Karma explains a lot,” without looking over her shoulder, without being certain about whether reincarnation occurs or doesn’t. She finds it significant that so many believe in that, and so many don’t.

This blog will discuss religion, politics, my family, the weather, the seasons, sports, and so on. I’m a 50-year-old Irish-American, married, with an 18-month-old son, living in Seattle, Washington. I hope it will be somewhat high-minded and entertaining. It will not be loud, or prickly.

I don’t want to talk about Pope Francis just yet, but soon.

It’s the first day of Autumn, and here in North Seattle, among humble homes and evergreens, a cool, hard rain is falling.

Okay!