Jesus used parables to make complicated ideas simple and familiar to his audience: analogies from agriculture, buying and selling, material things.  I myself have found scientific analogies to be enlightening,   One such is Christ as the Light of the World.   Another is The Trinity as a Quantum Superposition. And here’s yet another one drawn from molecular biology.

This analogy or parable was inspired by a comment in a reading at a Maine Sunday night Zoom Calix meeting: Catholic Faith and the Twelve Steps were like the double helix of DNA.   I jumped on that, Wow!   And then, after reflection, thought. “it’s not altogether apt.”  The two DNA strands of the double helix are equal, but Catholic Faith is much more than The Twelve Steps, significant as the those might be.  However, there is an aspect of the molecular biology analogy that does strike home; we in the Calix Society integrate the 12 Steps with Catholic teaching, as I’ll try to show below.