Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'AgTxHzkSRixO4T-zbB-k4Q',sig:'auTJngIGt5hCyt4OWScbNqTsD4WAbljSo-1j-NsPFgk=',w:'416px',h:'415px',items:'472382407',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })}); How do you justify evil? You make it sound really, really good. I’m not just talking about your garden variety spin-doctoring. I’m talking about taking the most vile evil, and clothing it in the appearance of a good that is beyond reproach. This has been the art … Continue reading The great heresy of supremacist theology

Written July 31, 2021, On the Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola "May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help." ~St. Ignatius of Loyola On Universalism A Defense of the universal and redeeming grace of Christ Abstract This work is undertaken to defend the orthodox teaching … Continue reading Eternal? Damnation

What is the dividing line between gracious silence and comfortable cowardice? At what point must our Christian duty to fight the evils of injustice and oppression outweigh our sincere desire to live in peaceful accord with our neighbor? When does truly biblical love look more like protest than amicable silence? I have been wrestling with … Continue reading Let us not be silent: A response to pastoral attacks on God’s LGBTQ+ children

Today is both Memorial Day and the Feast of the Visitation. I write this both as a veteran who has lost friends in training and in combat, and as a seminarian who struggles to reconcile both my own past and our nation's present with the Gospel teachings of the Prince of Peace. The coincidence of … Continue reading The congruent messages of Memorial Day and the Visitation of Mary

It is Christmas Day. The great day for which we have been waiting. But, what, exactly, is the subject of our waiting? In secular terms, the answer is obvious and exciting. The lights, the tree, the presents, family (even if afar, in this year of pandemic), and the food. I love it all. But, what … Continue reading What do we expect of the babe in the manger?

“On the way to Jerusalem Jesus was going through the region between Samaria and Galilee. As he entered a village, ten lepers approached him. Keeping their distance, they called out, saying, ‘Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!’” (Luke 17:11-13) In this reading Jesus is in the border land, between Galilee and Samaria — between the … Continue reading Finding love in the border lands

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The daily readings can be found at this link:https://bible.usccb.org/daily-bible-reading In the gospel reading Jesus tells us “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing!” This can seem a troubling passage. But we must never be mistaken: Christ came to disrupt the world. He came to disrupt … Continue reading Holy Spirit, set us ablaze

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Gird your loins, and prepare to be called to serve. https://youtu.be/RKgw3gipN5Y

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Blessed Stanley Rother, while serving as a priest in Guatemala A five-time cancer survivor, who has beaten long odds twice, attributes her survival to her faith, and especially to the intercessory prayers of Blessed Stanley Rother. Rother, an Okarche native and Oklahoma priest who was martyred in Guatemala in 1981, was beatified by the Roman … Continue reading 5-time cancer survivor attributes healing to Blessed Stanley Rother