[BalaGire]

Thanks Owen for your response.

What do our fathers say about this "dark night of the soul"? Is that how we refer to phases of doubt that most of us go through or is there another way of describing it.

In a lot of the books I have read, I am aware that a lot of people go through "dry" periods where there is a lack of desire to pray and we are told to pray anyway because the feeling is not important and the desire may be absent at the moment but that it will return.

But surely this is different from not believing in God at all.

I, too am appalled that her private confession letters have been made public.
Surely this is against the code concerning confessions.

Effie