Get On Board With God

“We believe in God . . . the Almighty,” we pray at Mass every Sunday: We believe God to be all-powerful—to think anything less would mean God isn’t God. If we look at the world around us, though, we see bad things happening to just about everyone. Where is the Almighty in all that? The church’s answer has always been that “God grants his creatures . . . the dignity of acting on their own,” as the Catechism of the Catholic Church says. That dignity can go two ways: Either working with God to help bring about the reign of God, or not. How can you show your cooperation?