I love these stories. You don't have to be an intellectual or know a lot of theology to be a Christian. I hate to use these stories as rebuttal material to Evangelicals who are always complaining about Catholics not knowing their faith (in the sense that they cannot respond to the usual so-called refutations of Catholicsim), but this gets right to the core. Christianity is, as Flannery O'Connor says, a "habit of being." Thanks to Rob Vischer over at Mirror of Justice and condolences to his family.