Andrew Comiskey
Raised to Raise Others
‘The Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My Name—He will teach you everything…’ (Jn. 14:26) What were they thinking?...
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Andrew Comiskey
May 1, 20233 min read
Dignity in Diapers?
Pope Francis’ poor word choice in describing the Church’s catechism on sexuality as ‘still in diapers’ (‘The Pope: Answers’, Hulu) can’t...
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Andrew Comiskey
Apr 17, 20232 min read
Merciful Solution for the Trans-Wounded
Like you, I cannot fathom Biden’s declaration last month that the transgendered ‘shape America’s soul.’ Young people violating themselves...
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Andrew Comiskey
Apr 10, 20232 min read
Happy Wound
‘In this desolation we find Jesus, triumphant over death and shockingly alive, present to us in ways we can’t understand, much less...
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Andrew Comiskey
Apr 3, 20232 min read
Open Letter to Pope Francis: A Father Restores
Dear Pope Francis, We enter Holy Week fixed on Jesus. His wounds are magnetic to us, the wounded. I am grateful for your exhortation to...
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Andrew Comiskey
Mar 27, 20233 min read
Open Letter to Pope Francis: A Father Disciplines
Dear Pope Francis, I just returned from a Living Waters group where Jesus is healing broken lives aspiring to chastity. My co-teacher...
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Andrew Comiskey
Mar 6, 20233 min read
Open Letter to Pope Francis: A Father Confirms
Dear Pope Francis, You exemplify a father who draws near to sons and daughters to dignify them. You encourage us to aspire to more, to...
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Andrew Comiskey
Feb 25, 20233 min read
Beachhead: Review of Jesus Revolution
Something sweet and true runs through this film about hippies ‘getting saved’ in Woodstock-era Southern California. (I caught the...
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Andrew Comiskey
Feb 20, 20232 min read
Open Letter to Pope Francis: A Father Listens
Pope Francis, Forgive my mild resistance to the ‘synod on synodality.’ The name itself tempts me to revert to evangelicalism; I resist. I...
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Andrew Comiskey
Feb 13, 20232 min read
Open Letter to Pope Francis
Dear Pope Francis, I write this as one father to another. We share a deep love for Jesus and Church. I honor your weighty fatherhood as...
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Andrew Comiskey
Jan 30, 20232 min read
Sin of Omission
‘We are all children of God and God loves us as we are…’ Pope Francis, on loving ‘LGBTQ+-identified’ people Pope Francis rightly...
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Andrew Comiskey
Jan 23, 20233 min read
The Prophet Pastors: How Truth Transfigures the Tender Care of Persons
‘The thing the Church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds…it needs nearness, proximity. I see the Church as a field hospital...
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Andrew Comiskey
Jan 8, 20233 min read
Epiphany of Benedict XVI
If Epiphany means to make something clear, then late great Pope Benedict is the Feast’s exemplar. ‘Stand firm in the faith! Don’t let...
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Andrew Comiskey
Dec 26, 20223 min read
Flesh and Stones
Why does Christmas Day fold into the stoning of Stephen? Why does your calendar, O Church, disturb our reverie with bloodshed? Why must...
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Andrew Comiskey
Dec 12, 20223 min read
Joyful Generation: Advent of Integration 3
‘Perhaps what we modern people most need is to be genuinely shaken, so that where life is grounded, we would feel its stability; and...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 28, 20223 min read
Coming Together: Advent of Integration 1
‘It is time to wake up from sleep’ (Romans 13:11). Wake up. Welcome the wholeness that is yours. Receive it. Lay hold of it. At the dawn...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 22, 20223 min read
Dignify and Deploy 40: Dignity for All
‘It is Jesus who provokes you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is He who urges you to shed...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 20, 20223 min read
Dignify and Deploy 38: Blind Spots
‘Now we see through a glass darkly…’ (I Cor. 13:12) Blame it on too much pressure. Too many important decisions that impact thousands of...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 17, 20223 min read
Dignify and Deploy 35: A Way in the Wilderness
‘Theology of the Body constitutes a kind of timebomb set to go off in the third millennium of the Church...it may well be seen as a...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 9, 20223 min read
Dignify and Deploy 27: Restoring Woman’s Dignity
‘He suffused me without difficulty, burst my shame and the thoughts I’d suppressed… As if He had touched a rhythm in my temples and...
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