“I'm an ex-Catholic priest. I have such a complex relationship to Catholicism. On the one hand, if I called myself a Catholic it would have to be a very unorthodox one, as I just don't believe all of the teachings of the Church. But on the other hand, I'm an educated man because the Catholic Church educated me. It gave me something that is really important to me. So I always think about my faith. I always have it, and sometimes I can't talk about it, and sometimes I can. I am like an adolescent in that way. Teens are asking questions: who is God and what does it mean to have faith?” ThinkingMenBelieveMeanImportantSometimesChurchTeachingCatholicEducatedCatholicismHave Faith Author:Benjamin Alire Saenz
“Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.” EndsSometimesPainUniverseSecretSummerStormLightningThunderEnd Of SummerSummer Is ComingSummer Inspirational Author:Benjamin Alire Saenz
“I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.” SometimesHandsUniverseMystery Author:Benjamin Alire Saenz
“I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break.” WorldLifeSometimesWantedBreakStorm Author:Benjamin Alire Saenz