I was sitting in my favorite coffee shop last night, writing for the blog and cleaning out my inbox, catching up on the newsletters piling up there. Then a young man dropped by my table to talk about laptops and then, how it happened I’m not sure, we ended up talking about religion and from there, about pro-life issues and other teachings of the Church. Suffice it to say that he was not at all sympathetic to anything having to do with the Church, Christianity or any other religion known to man. The anger and resentment boiling just below the surface of his words may have been at least partially responsible for the calm I felt during our conversation (the Holy Spirit working within me to help me; and to help him). Continue reading “When life begins” →