A Catholic Apologist Confesses All
By Michelle Arnold
Well, not "all," but something, since Lent begins today and confession is good for the soul.
Like Tim Staples, I love my job. It is a privilege to be trusted with the responsibility to find information for Catholics and non-Catholics on the Catholic faith. Whenever I learn that I in some way helped someone to better understand what Catholics believe and why, I am grateful once again to be working as an apologist for Catholic Answers.
But there is a downside. When a caller leaves a message on my voice mail that begins, "It's such an honor to leave a message in your voice mail," I flinch. When I am introduced to someone I've never met with the words, "This is Michelle Arnold; she knows everything about the Catholic faith," I cringe. When I was part of a group being presented to a priest and he turned straight to me, saying, "I know you; I read your writing in This Rock when I was in seminary," I flushed, mortified....
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By Michelle Arnold
Well, not "all," but something, since Lent begins today and confession is good for the soul.
Like Tim Staples, I love my job. It is a privilege to be trusted with the responsibility to find information for Catholics and non-Catholics on the Catholic faith. Whenever I learn that I in some way helped someone to better understand what Catholics believe and why, I am grateful once again to be working as an apologist for Catholic Answers.
But there is a downside. When a caller leaves a message on my voice mail that begins, "It's such an honor to leave a message in your voice mail," I flinch. When I am introduced to someone I've never met with the words, "This is Michelle Arnold; she knows everything about the Catholic faith," I cringe. When I was part of a group being presented to a priest and he turned straight to me, saying, "I know you; I read your writing in This Rock when I was in seminary," I flushed, mortified....
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