What Are You Searching For with Fr. Carlos Lopez

Podcast: Pentimento Podcast · Michael Carey

Opublikowano: 2026-10-27

How do you recognize a calling that doesn't look the way you pictured it? Father Carlos Lopez is a Benedictine monk at St. Andrew's Abbey in Valyermo, California, where he has lived for thirty years. Born in Tucson to parents from Mexico, he first felt drawn to the priesthood at a young age, stepped away from seminary for a time to work in customer service, then returned. And much to his surprise, a monastery was never part of the plan. In this episode, Fr. Carlos describes monastic life as a way of stepping back from...