HeyJaredBrandon Nelson, Trad Catholic
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The Good Thief Has a Feast Day, and It’s the Whole Point (opens the original)
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There’s a detail most Catholics never learn, and it’s worth starting with this Sunday, because it quietly contains the entire theology of what follows: the thief crucified next to Christ, the one who said remember me when you come into your kingdom and was told today you will be with me in paradise — that man has a name and a feast day. He’s St. Dismas,… Read more
Five Years of Traditionis Custodes: A Wound That’s Finally Being Tended To (opens the original)
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Five years ago this month, on the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Pope Francis signed a document that was supposed to settle a question the Church had been quietly living with for over a decade. Instead, Traditionis Custodes opened a wound that, by nearly every honest account this anniversary has produced, still hasn’t closed — and the most interesti… Read more
When the Fires Came, the Bells Rang First (opens the original)
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Before the sirens, before the evacuation orders, before any of the machinery of modern emergency response reached some of the villages outside Madrid this month, there was a much older sound doing the same job it has done for a thousand years: church bells, ringing out across the smoke to tell people it was time to leave.That detail is easy to miss insi… Read more
Learning to Read Your Own Heart Before the Feast of Our Lady’s Assumption (opens the original)
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There’s a particular kind of restlessness that shows up in late July — the year half-spent, the liturgical calendar stretched out in the long green quiet of Ordinary Time, and yet a feast approaching on the fifteenth of August that asks something real of us before it arrives. The Assumption is not a feast we simply attend. It’s one we’re meant to have p… Read more
The Church and the Mounting Problems of Iran (opens the original)
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Somewhere in the last several weeks, the war between the United States and Iran stopped being an abstraction most of us could set aside as somebody else’s foreign policy problem and became something Catholic moral theologians felt obligated to address directly, in public, by name.A ceasefire that had held since the spring broke down after a confrontatio… Read more
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