Matt West
Trivia Question❓The idea that the universe began expanding from a single starting point, what we now call the Big Bang, was first proposed by a Catholic priest and physicist. What was his name? Answer at the bottom of the newsletter |
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Welcome back to Catholic Tales, and a warm hello to everyone who joined us this week! This issue is about coming home, sometimes after decades away, sometimes from a place that never believed in God at all. You'll meet a scientist who was certain there was no God, until she discovered who first proposed the theory of an expanding universe. (That's this week's trivia. Do you know his name?) Then you'll meet a father who couldn't answer one question from his seven-year-old daughter, and a widow who walked into her husband's funeral Mass expecting to feel like a stranger, and found the prayers were still waiting for her. Read all the way to the bottom for the trivia answer. And if you love someone who has drifted from the Church, forward this email to them. Sometimes a story says what we can't. |
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This Week's Stories |
Jenna was raised without religion, earned a degree in biochemistry, and spent her days staring into a microscope.
She was certain there was no God, and she could win most arguments that said otherwise.
Then she learned that the man who first proposed the theory of an expanding universe was a Catholic priest.
That one fact cracked the door open.
This is the story of how a convinced atheist followed her questions all the way to the Catholic Church. Read More... |
Carlos was confirmed at fifteen, and by sixteen he was done with church.
For almost thirty years, Sunday mornings belonged to work, ball games, and sleeping in.
His wife kept taking the kids to Mass, and he kept making excuses.
Then his seven-year-old daughter, getting ready for her First Communion, asked him why he never went up to receive Jesus.
He didn't have an answer.
This is the story of how one little girl's question brought her father home. Read More... |
Linda and her husband Frank were married in the Catholic Church, and then, like so many couples, they simply drifted away.
Thirty years went by without a single Sunday Mass.
Then Frank died suddenly, and Linda found herself back in the parish she had forgotten, planning his funeral.
She expected to feel like a stranger.
Instead, the old prayers came rushing back, and a Church that prays for the dead gave her something no one else could.
This is the story of how grief led one woman home. Read More... |
💡 Answer to Trivia Question: Father Georges Lemaître. A Belgian priest and physicist, he proposed in 1927 that the universe is expanding, and in 1931 suggested it began from a "primeval atom." He saw no conflict between faith and science, and his work changed how the world understands the cosmos. |