Tag: background
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Passions, Habits, and the Life in Between
Take this as a giant maybe, a question to test, a hypothesis. In reflection tonight a few things struck me that, together, seem to encompass a lot of life. The first point was about passions. I was observing how someone close to me is driven by a passion, an inward drive to consume something past…
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Encyclical coming? Uh-oh.
Word on the street (word on the via Della Conciliazione?) is that Pope Francis is working on an encyclical about the environment. I was hoping to leisurely walk through these themes from the apostolic exhortation. Guess I better get on the stick! Incidentally, the pope says stuff that’s valuable every day, and I don’t take…
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Why not skip to the good part?
If you’re used to hearing about Pope Francis from news reports, and you’re more inclined to care about social, political or economic issues, you may be wondering whether to just skip to the parts that pertain to those issues. You can, of course. That’s what the secular media (and most of the Catholic media) did.…
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Quick note on structure of the apostolic exhortation
I’m going to focus these posts on what I think are the major themes of The Joy of the Gospel, and many of those cut across the document, but it still might be helpful to know how it’s organized. This is a wide-ranging work; I’ve read my share of papal encyclicals, which tend to be…
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What’s this about?
This blog is not for experts. I am not an expert. I’m just a guy who has been following the new pope, Francis. Yes, I studied Catholic social thought in graduate school 20 years ago. No, I don’t think that makes me an expert. I’ve noticed a lot of people — die-hard Catholics, casual Catholics,…
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