Catholicism isn’t a Religion, it’s a Field

If you can define Catholicism, you probably have no idea what it is. A friend of his once described the great Irish writer James Joyce as a Catholic. Joyce thought this not quite accurate: “You allude to me as a Catholic,” he responded. “Now for the sake of precision and to get the correct contour on me, you ought to allude to me as a Jesuit.” People think they know what “Catholic” means. I wonder if anybody does. As a Byzantine Catholic, I have been admonished I don’t know how many times by...