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    Our Father

    For the past week, and up until just a couple days before Pentecost, the Gospel readings for daily Mass are from John’s recounting of the Last Supper. Here Jesus repeatedly speaks about, and prays to, “the Father.” I want to…

    By Paul May 21, 2019
  • Pope Francis,  Where Peter Is

    What should the Church do?

    In a recent blog post titled “The Numbers” Don’t Look Good—What Should the Church Do?, Msgr. Charles Pope reflected on the drop in Mass attendance and reception of the Sacraments over the past several decades. And the numbers don’t look good.…

    By Paul May 17, 2019
  • Pope Francis,  Where Peter Is

    When I know better than the pope

    During the papacy of Saint Paul VI, both traditionalists and progressives made the same mistake: they thought they understood things better than the Church. The former said that Pope Paul VI shouldn’t have changed the liturgy because they couldn’t square…

    By Paul May 14, 2019
  • Gaudete et Exsultate,  Pope Francis,  Where Peter Is

    Holiness isn’t about trying harder

    I’ve noticed that “growing in holiness” is usually presented by popular Catholic media as something like “We just gotta pray more and try harder, then the Lord will make us holier.” As if becoming holy will take a lot of…

    By Paul April 1, 2019
  • Diocesan,  Healing

    God Wants Us to Suffer, A Pious Heresy

    When I teach junior high classes about creation I usually draw a large circle on the whiteboard. I tell my class that this represents everything God created and I ask them to shout out the things that would go inside…

    By Paul January 24, 2019
  • Pope Francis,  Pope John Paul II,  The Name of God is Mercy,  Where Peter Is

    The Pope Francis Generation

    I’m too young to have known John Paul II. He died before I cared about Jesus, let alone the pope. Benedict was pope during my conversion at the end of high school and during college. But I was too deeply…

    By Paul January 7, 2019
  • Pope Francis,  The Name of God is Mercy,  Where Peter Is

    The Stupid Shepherd

    What is your opinion? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine in the hills and go in search of the stray? And if he finds it, amen, I…

    By Paul December 11, 2018
  • Amoris Laetitia,  Pope Francis,  Where Peter Is

    We do not Possess the Truth: How the Church Changes Her Teachings

    “We must move toward an idea of truth that is evermore inclusive, less restrictive; at least, if we are thinking of the truth of God and not some human truth, however solid it may appear to us. The truth of…

    By Paul December 6, 2018
  • Abuse Crisis,  Diocesan,  Pope Francis

    The Harlot and the Bride

    In the first reading today, John describes the apocalyptic fall of the great city of Babylon. While there’s debate among Scripture scholars over whether John’s vision of Babylon represents Rome or Jerusalem, for my purposes here I want to focus on…

    By Paul November 29, 2018
  • Abuse Crisis,  Pope Francis,  Where Peter Is

    Yet another reason to mistrust the pope

    Over the weekend I saw many people speaking out in frustration over Pope Francis putting Cardinal Cupich of Chicago on the planning committee for the February meeting in Rome addressing the abuse crisis. Those critical of this appointment are, unsurprisingly, conservative American…

    By Paul November 26, 2018
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