Comments on: For people who spend so much time in prison, they sure are fun — and inspiring

By: Mary DeTurris Poust

Mary DeTurris Poust — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 22:56:33 +0000

Thank you, Christine. It was an honor and a privilege to meet you. I hope we meet again.
I will do whatever He tells me, and I won’t be afraid to lose a little sometimes. 😉

By: Christine

Christine — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 22:54:32 +0000

What Mary doesn’t know is that she truly does belong. Most of us are jaded, veteran Catholics who found our healing when we found Christ among the broken. Mary, it was a pleasure. He is calling each of us to deeper meaning; follow and do whatever he tells you. Peace.

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 19:35:08 +0000

So, what’s the difference between a prison chaplain and, say, the pastor of a big suburban parish in America?

An obvious difference is that the latter spends most of his time ministering to people determined to squeeze themselves — along with their houses filled with junk from Target, Best Buy, Walmart, and Amazon — into God’s kingdom through the eye of a needle. The former is ministering to people to whom God has thrown open the doors of the kingdom, and in many cases dragged them in, kicking and screaming.

That has to make a big difference in the kind of priest one becomes — to put it mildly!