mercy
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Today, Pope Francis inaugurated the Jubilee Year of Mercy to help us bring to the forefront the role of divine mercy in our life and to “rediscover the infinite mercy of the Father who welcomes everyone and goes out personally to encounter each of them.” Mercy is the place where God’s perfect love meets our
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This was a tough week. An idol of sorts got knocked off his pedestal, and really just about defenestrated. When I was in seminary, I had to defend my honors thesis to a committee, which is nothing unusual. What was, in retrospect, funny, was that the highest compliment I got from the committee (other than
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My friend Mario, who has a rare zeal for God, shared with loving concern with his Catholic Facebook friends who had shown support for the recent SCOTUS ruling on marriage equality a story from the blog “Courageous Priest”, a post about the archbishop of Detroit implying, and a theologian at a Detroit seminary stating, that
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Based on the papal bull Misericordiae Vultus, we are headed for a Holy Year of Mercy. How might we celebrate that? Ultimately each nation’s bishops will decide, but here are my two cents worth, based on what’s in the document. Pope Francis calls on us to “contemplate the mystery of mercy.” (2) This requires us
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You may have heard that Pope Francis announced a Holy Year of Jubilee Year of Mercy, to start December 8 2015 and end November 20 2016. The document that announces this holy year, called a papal bull, is titled Misericordiae Vultus and is well worth the read. Knowing that most people won’t read this document, even
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Is anyone else finding it relevant that as the Church leadership discusses rules on divorce and remarriage, contraception, homosexuality and other family issues, the daily readings from Galatians, in which Paul rails against the congregation for falling for false prophets who undercut the power of the gospel of grace by insisting that followers have to
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One of my favorite parts of Evangelii Gaudium is Francis’ study of peace and unity. As we celebrate Pope Saint John XXIII, whose best-known encyclical is Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth), and whose best-known anything was convening the Second Vatican Council, which paved the way for any number of steps toward Christian and interreligious
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As I outlined in the last post, I think Francis’ central message is that grace is more central than law. Here, let me show you. Our message as Christians to the rest of the world (and even to each other), needs to skew heavily toward the joy of the forgiven and away from the guilt
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Look, I’m not an expert. I haven’t read any of the works Pope Francis wrote when he was just Jorge Bergoglio, for instance. But it seems to me that the reason a lot of liberals and conservatives alike wrongly think that Francis is changing Church teaching is because they don’t pick up on the pope’s
Reading Francis 