By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - Moreover, whenever I am writing, I pray and therefore hope that this process of renewal will begin with myself. Each time I think and write about something, I am trying also to deepen and increase my own commitment to the Catholic understanding of that thing. If growth in holiness—growth in grace, growth in friendship with Christ—is not uppermost in my mind when I write, then I am in that instance failing in my vocation as the Catholic writer I claim to be.