From Quiet Catholic to Unapologetic Speaker
When the World Shouts Down Truth, My Voice Gets Louder
For the past year or so, I’ve been a “quiet Catholic.”
My faith was private, my prayers were whispered, and I kept Christ in a personal relationship, away from others.
I thought being silent was enough; I’d live Christ-like, try to be as good a man as possible, focus on light and positivity, and let the world do what it does.
But then Charlie Kirk was shot.
That moment split me open.
Not just because a man was attacked, but because the message was loud and clear:
Stand for truth and the world will try to take you down…
Sitting there, processing what I saw, something inside me snapped, and I thought, “Oh, fuck that.”
Why should I hold my faith in silence?
Why should I continue to treat my quiet connection in a place reserved for me, while the world spits on it, mocks it, and murders men who dare to stand in the light? There was a time when it made sense and worked, but that time was destroyed the moment the bullet killed a man who stood for freedom and connection.
Silence isn’t strength or respect in our current times; it’s surrender, and I’d rather die than surrender what I stand for.
That was the day my faith broke out of the shadows.
What you see from me now, the words, the conviction, and the boldness…
This isn’t a phase, it’s who I am and who I have been.
Do not forget, these posts were written this year, before Kirk was shot:
Silence lets evil grow, and darkness thrives when good men keep their mouths shut; mine was shut for too long, and unlike Charlie, I am in a position where I can go out and speak my truth, so that era of “private faith” is over.
If the world wants to come after men for standing with Christ, let it because I’d rather be hated for speaking His name and standing for truth than be loved for betraying Him in silence, and hoping just to be “left alone”.
I am Catholic, a Christian, and from here on out, all of my readers and the world will know where I stand.
I hope that when you sit and look at all that is going on in the world around you, you, too, will reflect on where you stand and what you have shown (and hidden) from others.
Do people know you?
Do they know where you stand on the central issues being discussed?
Does it matter to you?
That final question is one which separates many; it matters to me, which is why I write and speak and serve as a public figure in my community on these issues…
To some, it doesn’t matter, and that is fine, but I view those who choose that path as taking the “civilian” path in this social war, and those who choose not to support either side find themselves consumed by both, and lost in the middle, wondering, “What is going on?”.
You cannot control your life if you never take ownership of the direction it is headed.
That’s all my nice way of saying, speak up or get run over by those driving the discourse.
- Zac Small