I was born and grew up in Italy. As most of you know, the Catholic Church is the predominant denomination in the country. Growing up, I attended a Catholic school run by nuns. As a young child, I wanted to become a nun. I loved the way they could walk backwards so they could keep an eye on us little children walking from one class to the next. They seemed to do it so flawlessly and I wanted to do that too. Somehow, I thought I had to become a nun to do that!

I attended Catholic Mass, as often as I felt like it. Many times I felt as if people were attending only to see what kind of clothes their neighbor was wearing, and that is why I was not as active as I wanted to be. I did love the music though and that is what pulled me back the times that I did attend, besides the fact that I felt my Heavenly Father wanted me to be in Church.

As I grew older, and sporadically attending Mass, I started asking questions that did not seem to have an answer within the Catholic faith. For starters, I was not too keen on a priest telling me how to be a good wife and mother when he never experienced marriage and parenthood. I was also questioning infants being baptized.

These thoughts kept occupying my mind. One day, as I took the young boy I was babysitting to the park, these thoughts became spoken words I shared with another young woman babysitting for another couple.

What happened next, changed my life forever!

Have you ever had questions you could not find an answer to or that had an answer that did not feel right?