April 28, 2022 marked 15 years since I returned to the Catholic Church. Last week I published an essay reflecting on my journey. It appeared in Notre Dame’s Church Life Journal. Here’s how it begins: The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. —Blaise Pascal In summer 2021, when I realized that on April 28, 2022 it would be exactly fifteen years since I had returned to the Catholic Church, I began ruminating... Read more