Getting to Here

Sign at Dulles Airport chapel inviting all faith traditions to use it for prayer, reflection and meditation

“Are all my Jewish friends going to hell?” I asked my parish priest in Suffern, NY, where I grew up.

The answer to my question really started me on my personal religious journey. When Father Joyce said to me, “No. God is merciful to all who worship and keep faith in the way of their fathers, the way that they are taught,” it opened a whole new horizon to me. It affirmed my belief in an all merciful God, and the teachings of Jesus to love one another as he loved us and as we love ourselves. It also made me start to think about how all religions shared, but did not own, those universal truths.

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