I had been a Catholic only for a few years when one day I casually engaged in a pleasant conversation with a kind Catholic lady. She seemed to be interested in my conversion, how have I started to write about the faith and so on. At one point she said: "Well, like the Bible clearly says 'Act as if you have faith and faith will be given to you.'" I was familiar with the phrase, having heard it for the first time from the lips of Paul Newman in Sidney Lumet's The Verdict. There Frank Galvin (Paul … [Read more...]