Colin C. Caso, twenty-one years of age, is an author of religion, philosophy, faith, and symbolism.
My first book, released in May 2025, explores how the philosophy of living encounters sacred traditions in modern times. Like my many articles on faith symbolism, it keeps returning to a central question: What happens when modern life collides with the sacred? This focus guides my freelance work as well, where I examine how religious imagery retains or loses meaning today, especially given changes within Catholicism after Vatican II.
I write from the perspective of a lapsed Catholic, one who wants deeply to believe in God but struggles to do so. My main argument is that faith is not a settled state, but an ongoing search, sometimes exhausting and often painful. This personal struggle is what compels me to study, write about, and question the meaning of the sacred, even as I find it hard to fully embrace myself.
This ongoing tension, between intellectual understanding and personal faith, drives my work. Through academic research and my own journey, I keep returning to one challenge for readers: In a world that often diminishes the divine, how do we maintain or recover a sense of the sacred, particularly when that struggle is both culturally pervasive and deeply personal?
Colin C. Caso 