Open Letter to Pope Francis: A Father Disciplines
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Dear Pope Francis, I just returned from a Living Waters group where Jesus is healing broken lives aspiring to chastity. My co-teacher...
Andrew Comiskey
Mar 20, 20233 min read
Open Letter to Pope Francis: A Father Guides
Dear Pope Francis, Thank you for fathering us generously. You eschew formalities, which invites us to pour out contradictions—desires in...
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Andrew Comiskey
Mar 13, 20233 min read
Open Letter to Pope Francis: A Father Clarifies
Dear Pope Francis, Thank you for championing the oppressed; you help create level ground on which they regain footing and dignity. As the...
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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 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
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 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 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
Dec 5, 20223 min read
Declare Your Ground: Advent of Integration 2
‘If you don’t stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all’ (Is. 7:9). Christian, never apologize for upholding persons in their...
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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 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 5, 20222 min read
Dignify and Deploy 23: Anchoring Sexuality in the Beauty of Creation
‘Jesus testifies that the mystery of creation becomes the power of the mystery of redemption’ (Theology of the Body 46:5). John Wimber...
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Andrew Comiskey
Sep 12, 20222 min read
Free to Burn 2: Division
‘Do you think that I have come to bring peace? No, I tell you, but division. From now on there will be five in one family divided against...
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Andrew Comiskey
May 16, 20223 min read
Pope Francis Urges LGBTQ+ Community to Repent in the Power of the Holy Spirit
I’ve been waiting all my Catholic life for this. In response to Fr. Martin’s questions about how the Church should respond to the rainbow...
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Andrew Comiskey
Mar 28, 20223 min read
We Need a Guide.
In a culture committed to every sexual and relational variant imaginable, we need direction. A map for whole relationships. We have one...
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Andrew Comiskey
Feb 7, 20223 min read
Censoring Human Freedom
‘There’s something deeply corrosive about attempting to live in such a way that demands everyone agree with you.’ Sonny Bunch One...
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Marco Casanova
Jan 12, 20223 min read
‘New Ways’? No Way
By Marco Casanova Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of...
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Andrew Comiskey
Dec 19, 20213 min read
Rousing Reality
‘Man becomes truly himself precisely at the point when he recognizes that the highest and brightest Being dwells within him.’ Fr. Alfred...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 28, 20212 min read
Transforming Fear
Jesus is coming and He’s mad. Today’s Advent Gospel (Lk. 21:25-28; 34-36) rouses us, not with carols but a swift kick. The Son of...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 8, 20213 min read
Day 27: Freedom and Struggle
Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline...
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