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I’ve been thinking a lot about indulgences the last few days, because a friend asked me to. I’m always a little amazed that anyone actually reads these posts, and was really touched that this friend would think to ask me if I’d ever written anything about a topic she encountered in her Church. I totally
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There’s an inelegant term in Broadway parlance for what you do with the actor-singer who can’t dance: park and bark. While the dancers move gracefully around the stage, directors find ways to get the non-dancers from one place to another and then let them stay there to do their thing – singing and acting. (Having
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Mike Lewis, on his excellent blog Where Peter Is, had a thoughtful and provocative essay on the tensions in today’s US Catholic Church titled “What can we offer to the world?”That question has nagged at me and in the process taken me in a different direction than Lewis heads in his essay. Lewis follows the
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Here is my not-so-hot take on Eucharistic coherence: When we lay out the Welcome mat at Church, it shouldn’t have an asterisk. I found this conversation on Gloria Purvis’ podcast very helpful in outlining the rationale behind Eucharistic coherence, which, for those who aren’t nerdy Catholics, is the concept from which the current hullabaloo around
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One of those Bible tricks I learned in college is that, sometimes, Gospel writers bracket an important section between parallel stories. So Luke starts his 9th chapter with the story of Jesus sending out the twelve disciples, and then he starts the 10th chapter by sending out 72 other disciples. That should make us think
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Hey, remember that thing I used to do where I would read through a book of the Bible and pull out points that I hadn’t noticed before? I’m back, baby. As near as I can tell, I left off at Luke 8, so here’s something interesting in Luke 9 that turns out to be eerily
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Two super-quick notes on the Bible passages Catholics will hear this Sunday at Mass: John 10:13 explains a lot (though not all) about what’s wrong with capitalist economies, including why, to reference a problem more floridly described by Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon II, your drive-thru order often isn’t correctly fulfilled. Look it up. Most
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I drafted this earlier in the week but didn’t bring it in for a landing. So consider this a rough draft: The author of life you put to death, but God raised him from the dead; of this we are witnesses. Acts 3:15 The second Sunday of Easter is Divine Mercy Sunday, but I don’t
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I think a lot of us Christians come out of Easter on a bit of a triumphant high. Some of us made it through Lent and the Triduum, but even those who don’t show up for that part of the story find it easy to jump on the bandwagon of Easter morning. O Death, where
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