Catholic Answers
CV NEWS FEED // She used to put her trust in “the cosmos,” thinking her relationship with it could be her strength and source of happiness. But after quite a journey, she has since come to call home the place that offers her true peace and joy: the Catholic Church.
Christine Flynn details her path to becoming Catholic – including various difficult experiences that mounted on the way – in her recently-released book, Not Just Spiritual. Flynn is now a wife and mother of five children.
According to a press release from Catholic Answers, Flynn did not have a religious upbringing, but rather had crafted a “homemade spirituality” that eventually came up hollow. Amid her search for truth, she dabbled in occult practices, tried self-help endeavors, and experienced “the wakeup call when sex and success and the appearance of freedom bring not joy but emptiness,” the press release noted.
The book not only shares Flynn’s individual journey to Catholicism, but spotlights broader truths countering the plagued yet popular notion of being “spiritual but not religious,” the book’s description adds.
In the press release, Catholic Answers Press Director of Publishing Todd Aglialoro pointed out that all people long for the transcendent, and that secular culture insists “individual experiences and relativistic truth” will fulfill this.
“But,” he continued, “Christine Flynn’s courageous sharing of her story reminds us, in contrast, that spiritual fulfilment is ultimately found only in Jesus Christ and participation in his mystical body.”
