Catholic Stuff
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Possibly most people who read this blog also read these other two, but just in case: Craig Burrell describes his initial investigation of Heidegger. As part of Janet Cupo's 52 Saints series, Grumpy writes about St. Bonaventure. I have to face the fact that though I'm pretty interested in theology and philosophy, I'm never going to become…
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…I don't want to submit myself with great confidence to God's holy will, which is Love and Mercy itself. I want him to fix the problem I'm asking him to fix.
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There are many things to appreciate about Pope Francis. "Go to the margins"–yes. "The shepherd should smell like the sheep"–yes. And much more. But he also creates a great deal of confusion, and the controversy that followed his remark a week or so ago that the Church should apologize to homosexuals has brought me to a point…
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I'm writing something of an apologetics nature that has me producing sentences like "The Church has always stuck to [its|her] story." I kind of like using "her" instead of "its." I like the old tradition of using feminine pronouns to refer to the Church, and I have some idea of why that's theologically appropriate. But I'm wondering…
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…to show us that we don't have to take seriously everything a pope says. I said that to my wife earlier and she laughed, but I'm only half-joking, at most. The remark was prompted by the latest round of confusion (to say the least) created by some of his off-the-cuff remarks. (Basic story here, a…
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I'm sorry, but these remarks from Pope Francis just sound silly and/or naive to me: “It is true that the idea of conquest is inherent in the soul of Islam," he said. "However, it is also possible to interpret the objective in Matthew’s Gospel, where Jesus sends his disciples to all nations, in terms of the same…
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I saw a movie by that name last night. It's a series of interviews with a number of Catholic converts describing the process by which they arrived at the faith. You'll probably recognize some of the names–Mark Shea, for instance. (I was pleased to see that his segment was quite engaging, as I had given up reading…
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Over the past couple of years when Pope Francis has published major documents I forced myself to sit out the wrangling that began–I started to say "the moment they were released," but really it started well before that. So I waited a few weeks or more before reading them and commenting on them. I think…
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Judas is neither a master of evil nor the figure of a demoniacal power of darkness but rather a sycophant who bows down before the anonymous power of changing moods and current fashions. But it is precisely this anonymous power that crucified Jesus, for it was anonymous voices that cried "Away with him! Crucify him!"…
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After hearing Jesus read from the Prophet Isaiah and say: “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing” (Lk 4:21), the congregation in the synagogue of Nazareth might well have burst into applause. They might have then wept for joy, as did the people when Nehemiah and Ezra the priest read from the book…
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