Growing Up Catholic in a Small Texas Town: Seeing is Believing

For the past few weeks, I’ve been watching The Chosen. I don’t know why I waited so long. It’s a fabulous series, even though I have to turn on closed caption sometimes to understand what is being said because of the accents. Like any dramatic series, adding some humor now and then makes it more real, like when one of the disciples complained of an overbearing woman in his life, and Jesus said jokingly, “You haven’t met my mother.”

I’ve spent my entire life listening to priests’ sermons, nuns’ teaching of the Catechism, and…