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By Steve Weatherbe (This article also appeared in the National Catholic Register) When thriller writer Michael Gruber had his first religious experience, he was in the middle of a personal crisis that produced symptoms of self-destructiveness, hypochondria and agoraphobia, especially on airplanes. He was also on a flight from New York to Seattle, and in [...]
By Steve Weatherbe Meeting Catholicism through Thomas Merton Raised in a secular Jewish home in Brooklyn, he followed the plan to Columbia University, where he first encountered Catholicism in the still vibrant memory of Thomas Merton. Merton had edited a literary magazine at Columbia in his undergraduate days and Gruber now held down the same [...]
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