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By rights I should be an atheist. But I feel a pull towards Catholicism

I trod an unconventional path to the Christian faith, via a left-wing secular home, a northern comprehensive education, and a few years working in London media absorbing the cynicism of newspaper journalism. By rights I should now be a thoroughly sceptical liberal atheist. I held beliefs typical of my generation: Christians are deeply unfashionable at best, sinister at worst; Catholics even more so.

Yet … I always had the sense that God was there, it just made little difference to my life. I didn’t really know how it could.

In my late 20s I trotted back up North and started a spiritual quest. I tried all the usual avenues for my generation – Buddhism, paganism, new ageism. Somehow I’d absorbed from the cultural ether that these religions were more positive, compassionate, and most definitely more trendy than anything Christianity had to offer. I found only dead ends: each left me disappointed or even repelled when I read of their origins and attended their communities. They didn’t have what I was looking for.

Praise the Lord

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