After yesterday's draft of this podcast Rev Allen Grothe, in his online sermon, supplied me with a couple of choice sentences which just had to be added to the points I tried to make. Click on this link to see Allen's entire service on youtube; the quotes start at 28:00
https://www.youtube.com/watchv=N7HvBHNynq8&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1X428gEs4OlVMregPp40gvuea5AsSKUAG02ip6ohiLm4HME4zXOXiQGRY
You can order my own book Answers Become Questions. You can also link to a book review I quoted from The Catholic World Report which claims that what “Nick Ripatrazone portrays in Longing for an Absent God: Faith and Doubt in Great American Fiction is sorely needed in these days of social distancing filled with concern that physical closeness could breed infection. The Catholic literary tradition, like its religious traditions, is deeply tactile…Its practices, both inside churches and in the daily lives of the faithful, surround us in the conviction that God is among us—here, now.”
But first, listen to the podcast!