It Seemed Like a Better Idea These days, my favorite place to be on a Sunday morning is at Mass, inside Holy Family Cathedral in Tulsa, Oklahoma, gathered with Christ’s
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Early Years The pilgrimage of faith which brought me home to Catholicism began in 1909. That year, my father’s parents, Rudolph and Zdenka Souta, immigrated to this country from Czechoslovakia.
“To bind up the brokenhearted.” This verse struck me as a child reading my Bible on the school bus. It was among the things Jesus said He was going to
Brooklyn Beginnings I was the youngest of four, born and raised by a single-parent mother in Brooklyn, New York. My mother was a strong Irish Catholic. She instilled in us
My wife and I did not come to the Catholic Church by way of the same journey, although our paths ran parallel. Our journey began 20 years ago, with our
There’s a saying that goes, “If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.” My own life has proved just how true that is. I was an evangelical
Early life I was born and raised in a family that was part of CSI (Church of South India), which was formed by the union of Episcopal and non-Episcopal churches
To understand where I come from, you need to know something about my father. My grandfather was a stern and stubborn man. He pulled my father out of school after
One of the things that I learned later in my life was that I was born the day after Pope Pius XII died. So I was born during an interregnum,
God’s grace guides us all. He doesn’t push people to do anything, but rather uses elements in that person’s own world and circumstance to open and close doors, providing guidance
“Someday we’ll all be Catholic. ”What!? I was eight years old when I heard my father say those words. It was the evening of Sunday, October 22, 1967. Dad was
My childhood faith development was a “broken road.” I was baptized in the Episcopal Church about the age of three, but based on family photos, it doesn’t seem to have
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