For too many Catholics, the darkness of creeping doubt, of drifting out into the spiritual cold of God’s absence, is felt not outside the church but within it. With each of the church’s moral failures

people lose faith or they wonder if they can, in good conscience, remain part of the church at all. Collen Dulle,  a journalist for the Jesuit publication America covers her spiritual journey as she reflects on the failures of the church and why she stays.