Stories of Coming Home: Finding Spirituality in Our Messy Lives

Though the world demands perfection, most people’s lives are messy. They are mired in problems, alienation, and confusion. Even the one place they should be able to find acceptance — the church — is divided between left and right, who’s in and who’s out. This book is a healing call for all Catholics to come home. It sees messiness as an opportunity to move toward reconciliation. Tapping almost four decades of pastoral experience, the author directly faces the worst of situations — abusive clergy, divorce and second marriages, women in the church — and helps readers find, despite this messiness, their own hopeful and energizing spirituality.