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My parents were traditional Midwestern Protestants who had several close friends who were Catholics, but who understood Catholicism as a separate faith from theirs. (This seems to reflect the way Catholics thought of Protestants before the Second Vatican Council, to be fair.) I never heard it directly from them, but through back channels I picked
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This was a dumb idea, God. Advent, the 4-week liturgical season that leads up to Christmas, is the beginning of the Church’s new year, so it’s a good time to reflect and repent and reform, or at least to start working up momentum to your New Year’s Resolutions. I had just finished re-reading one of
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So here’s something we have in common with 13th century Italy. Then as now, young men were steeped in a culture that glorified violence as the path to significance. If you wanted to *be somebody*, as a guy back then, you wanted to be a knight, a warrior. Francis was no exception as a youth.
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“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” – St. Teresa of Calcutta If? The “forgetting that we belong to each other” smacks you in the face at so many turns these days. Our politics is based on a tribalism that “otherizes”, intentionally and consistently casting
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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
Reading Francis 