Accidental Pilgrim

Then, too, I found in Catholicism coherent answers that seemed sensible, balanced, intuitively plausible. The Church is a liturgical institution that leaves room for both ethical and radically mystical approaches to religion. It’s monotheistic rather than polytheistic but with an understanding of divinity that builds in crucial bridges between the Absolute and the timebound world. Its vision of Purgatory as a possible destination for a great many human souls seems like a reasonable balance in the debate over eternal damnation versus reincarnation and universal salvation. And its pluralist cosmology, in which angels and demons and saints exist as spiritual powers in their own right and even the singular Godhead has a mysterious triune relationship within Itself, likewise leavens the philosophical case for a single transcendent Creator with a recognition of the way that spiritual exploration seems to bring people into contact with a range of supernatural beings.