HeyJaredSam Sawyer
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The U.S. bishops are speaking out forcefully on politics—and finally being heard (opens the original)
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When the Catholic Church speaks up about politics, who is it who decides what to say? One of the great gifts of being Catholic is a robust sense of the church as a corporate person, not only in the legal sense but also as the Body of Christ subsisting through history in the church’s visible institution. It is that sense that lets Catholics say and mean “Mother Church” and to cultivate a deep and personal love for the church even when, as Flannery O’Connor wrote to a friend who had converted to C
The grace to see our own faults first (opens the original)
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Wednesday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time A Reflection for Wednesday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside,but inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of filth.Even so, on the outside you appear righteous,but inside you are filled with hypocrisy and evildoing. (Mt 23:27-28) Anyone walking around New York City will see some litter on the street. While it
Reading: It’s good for your soul (opens the original)
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I am writing this column a few days before heading off to vacation, or “villa,” as Jesuit lingo has it. I plan to spend a large chunk of that time enjoying one of the finest pleasures August has to offer, reading on the beach. While “beach read” often connotes less-than-serious material, I have taken all kinds of books to the beach, from literary novels to science fiction to books of essays. Last summer I read most of Czech priest Tomas Halik’s The Afternoon of Christianity while on the Jersey S
Discernment is only fully clear in hindsight (opens the original)
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The Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Priest A Reflection for the Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Priest Thus says the LORD:Stand in the court of the house of the LORDand speak to the people of all the cities of Judahwho come to worship in the house of the LORD;whatever I command you, tell them, and omit nothing. (Jeremiah 26:2) If you happen to be celebrating the feast of St. Ignatius in a Jesuit church or chapel, it gets promoted to the rank of a solemnity—which means, among other th
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