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Peter’s Outrage

Posted on March 24, 2016 by

Peter was horrified by what he saw Jesus doing. When Jesus approached him, he had to ask, even though by this time Jesus’ intentions must have been obvious. Lord, are you going to wash my feet??!? It completely outraged his … Continue reading →

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Children, Priests, and Scandal in Church

Posted on March 26, 2014 by

Here’s the story: on his way to the ambo (pulpit) to give his homily (sermon), the presiding priest detoured to approach “a family with several small children under the age of four who were sitting near the front of the … Continue reading →

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“Your Christianity will be Personal, or it will be Bullshit”: Beneath Grisez’s Critique of Francis

Posted on October 12, 2013 by

In response to Francis’ recently published interview with an atheist, Germaine Grisez had some startling criticism: I’m afraid that Pope Francis has failed to consider carefully enough the likely consequences of letting loose with his thoughts in a world that … Continue reading →

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Jottings on Sin: Relating feminist and mimetic hamartiologies?

Posted on March 23, 2013 by

I went on a database crawl last night looking for material by Mary McClintock Fulkerson, and have read lightly through a few papers that have prompted these still-embryonic thoughts about connections between the understandings of sin in traditional, feminist, and … Continue reading →

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Refusing to be Scandalized

Posted on May 4, 2012 by

So there was this big Catholic news story a couple of weeks ago about the Vatican (the CDF) and the nuns (the LCWR). You might have been wondering why I haven’t said anything about it here. I’ve been thinking. Well, … Continue reading →

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“Where cynics talk smut, thieves curse, and soldiers gamble”

Posted on December 17, 2011 by

I simply argue that the cross be raised again at the centre of the marketplace as well as on the steeple of the church. I am recovering the claim that Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles, … Continue reading →

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Rejecting the Glamor of Evil

Posted on September 11, 2011 by

We were blessed this weekend by a first reading from a portion of Sirach (Sir 27:30-28:7) that begins this way: Wrath and anger are hateful things, yet the sinner hugs them tight. The vengeful will suffer the LORD’s vengeance, for … Continue reading →

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