I am a critical Catholic. I repeatedly choose to stay in the church in spite of my frustrations. I go from one Sunday Mass to another pleading God for conversion.
I write because like Arlene Babst Vokey (Philippine Daily Inquirer,March 16, 2013) who has a son, I have a daughter Whom I desire to catapult to her birth right of greatness and “being made to the image and likeness of God” beyond Catholic guilt and false humility.
I write because with a new pope, a Jesuit at that I hope some of my issues will be resolved. I write because inspired by the parable of the one talent I don’t want to let my one talent: writing, to go to waste.