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Reconciliatio et Paenitentia 23: Promoting Penance and Reconciliation, Part 2: Christ As Redeemer
Let’s talk a bit more about Promoting Penance and Reconciliation: The church thus finds herself face to face with (people)-with the whole human world-wounded by sin and affected by sin in the innermost depths of (our) being. But at the same … Continue reading
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Beatitudes for Bishops VI
Archbishop Domenico Battaglia’s Beatitudes for Bishops were adopted by the Holy Father, who shared them last month in a homily at an episcopal ordination. The original text is here, in Italian. I think they have applications outside of the office … Continue reading
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A Season of Hope
I had heard the election results reported on NPR on my drive home this afternoon. I was curious to see what my friend John had to say, and it’s here. Once I had a plan for a cultural exchange, suggested … Continue reading
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Catholics In Exodus
I had avoided commenting on Archbishop Gomez’s speech from earlier this month. I find the talks and comments of bishops not my own to be far less interesting these days. But this chat got a lot of attention, even here … Continue reading
Reconciliatio et Paenitentia 23: Promoting Penance and Reconciliation, Part 1: More Than Church Documents and Ethics
The remainder of this document will find us with John Paul II and taking a close look at “The “Pastoral Ministry of Penance and Reconciliation.” This third of three main parts begins with the section numbered 23 and will take … Continue reading
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Beatitudes for Bishops V
The Beatitudes for Bishops’ original text is here, in Italian. Pope Francis seems to approve, making it a handout at a recent meeting of Italy’s national episcopal conference. Blessed is the bishop who banishes duplicity of heart, who avoids every … Continue reading
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Reconciliatio et Paenitentia 22: Toward a Reconciled Life
Some final thoughts on the mysterium pietatis lead us Toward a Reconciled Life: 22. Thus the word of Scripture, as it reveals to us the mystery of pietas, opens the intellect to conversion and reconciliation, understood not as lofty abstractions … Continue reading
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Religion in Film: Open Mic and Lost Sheep
When the fam watches movies, my expectations are sometimes low. Like at Christmastime when there’s some Hallmark variation on a five minute attraction that gets stretched out to two hours of viewing time or to the end of the Christmas … Continue reading
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Beatitudes for Bishops IV
Blessed is the bishop who has a heart for the misery of the world, who is not afraid to dirty his hands with the mud of the human soul in order to find God’s gold, who is not scandalized by … Continue reading
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Reconciliatio et Paenitentia 21: The Effort of the Christian
When John Paul II wrote of The Effort of the Christian he wasn’t indulging a pelagianism here. Remember the lost son of Luke 15. He came to his realization, but he still had to put one foot in front of the … Continue reading
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Beatitudes for Bishops III
Bishop Beatitudes number 3: “Blessed is the bishop who does not shut himself up in the palaces of governance, who does not become a bureaucrat who is more attentive to statistics than to faces, to procedures than to stories, who … Continue reading
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Reconciliatio et Paenitentia 20: It Is Christ Himself, Part 2: The Very Mystery of …
Let’s finish up It Is Christ Himself The mystery or sacrament of pietas, therefore, is the very mystery of Christ. It is, in a striking summary, the mystery of the incarnation and redemption, of the full passover of Jesus, the Son … Continue reading
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Beatitudes for Bishops II
Beatitudes for Bishops by Archbishop Domenico Battaglia of Naples, passed along by Pope Francis. The original text is here, in Italian. I think they’re not just for bishops. Lots of church people lean to power over service. You don’t have … Continue reading
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Reconciliatio et Paenitentia 20: It Is Christ Himself, Part 1: 1 Timothy 3:16
In this discussion on 1 Timothy 3:16, Pope John Paul II labels this section: It Is Christ Himself 20. It is profoundly significant that when Paul presents this mysterium pietatis he simply transcribes, without making a grammatical link with what he … Continue reading
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Satellite Imagination: Ravioli, Anyone?
The advent of orbiter missions to the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn have enabled astronomers to get detailed looks at moons that, in the view of earthbound telescopes, look like little white dots. When a white dot gets too close … Continue reading
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Catholic Sensibility 