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Fault Line
‘Gay’ selves splinter into a ‘trans’ nation. The moral and psychological fault line underneath today’s homosexuality widens into a...

Andrew Comiskey
Jul 24, 20233 min read
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Read the Wound
‘By His wounds we are healed.”– Is. 53:5b I left my father in knots, an occasional but not unfamiliar experience in that season. I began...

Andrew Comiskey
Jul 17, 20232 min read
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Not Alone
‘Now in Christ Jesus you who were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ’ (Eph. 2:13). To find the narrow way...

Andrew Comiskey
Jun 26, 20232 min read
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Witnessing the Body of Christ in My Own Body
One year ago, as I left home for Mass to celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi (Latin for the Body of Christ), I had no idea that my life...
An anonymous Living Waters leader
Jun 11, 20232 min read
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Raised to Raise Others
‘The Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My Name—He will teach you everything…’ (Jn. 14:26) What were they thinking?...

Andrew Comiskey
May 15, 20232 min read
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Dignity in Diapers?
Pope Francis’ poor word choice in describing the Church’s catechism on sexuality as ‘still in diapers’ (‘The Pope: Answers’, Hulu) can’t...

Andrew Comiskey
May 1, 20233 min read
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Lifted Up
As one subject to self-pity and despair, the Lord has trained me to fight. I now recognize my temptation to a familiar despair. I have a...

Katie Comiskey
Apr 24, 20232 min read
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Open Letter to Pope Francis: A Father Restores
Dear Pope Francis, We enter Holy Week fixed on Jesus. His wounds are magnetic to us, the wounded. I am grateful for your exhortation to...

Andrew Comiskey
Apr 3, 20232 min read
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Open Letter to Pope Francis: A Father Disciplines
Dear Pope Francis, I just returned from a Living Waters group where Jesus is healing broken lives aspiring to chastity. My co-teacher...

Andrew Comiskey
Mar 27, 20233 min read
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Open Letter to Pope Francis: A Father Guides
Dear Pope Francis, Thank you for fathering us generously. You eschew formalities, which invites us to pour out contradictions—desires in...

Andrew Comiskey
Mar 20, 20233 min read
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Open Letter to Pope Francis: A Father Confirms
Dear Pope Francis, You exemplify a father who draws near to sons and daughters to dignify them. You encourage us to aspire to more, to...

Andrew Comiskey
Mar 6, 20233 min read
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Open Letter to Pope Francis: A Father Listens
Pope Francis, Forgive my mild resistance to the ‘synod on synodality.’ The name itself tempts me to revert to evangelicalism; I resist. I...

Andrew Comiskey
Feb 20, 20232 min read
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Open Letter to Pope Francis
Dear Pope Francis, I write this as one father to another. We share a deep love for Jesus and Church. I honor your weighty fatherhood as...

Andrew Comiskey
Feb 13, 20232 min read
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Sin of Omission
‘We are all children of God and God loves us as we are…’ Pope Francis, on loving ‘LGBTQ+-identified’ people Pope Francis rightly...

Andrew Comiskey
Jan 30, 20232 min read
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The Prophet Pastors: How Truth Transfigures the Tender Care of Persons
‘The thing the Church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds…it needs nearness, proximity. I see the Church as a field hospital...

Andrew Comiskey
Jan 23, 20233 min read
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Epiphany of Benedict XVI
If Epiphany means to make something clear, then late great Pope Benedict is the Feast’s exemplar. ‘Stand firm in the faith! Don’t let...

Andrew Comiskey
Jan 8, 20233 min read
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Crossing the Threshold: Advent of Integration 4
‘When Joseph awoke, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took his wife into his home’ (Mt 1:24). I write this in sheer...

Marco Casanova
Dec 19, 20222 min read
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Dignify and Deploy 34: Living the Cross
‘Suffering is one of those points in which man in a certain sense is destined to go beyond himself.’ St. John Paul II ‘I resolved to...

Andrew Comiskey
Nov 16, 20223 min read
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Dignify and Deploy 33: Buoyant, Broken
‘We have firmly hoped, we will always hope, and we are and will be happy.’ Karol Wojtyla Bearing the weight of a billion person Church in...

Andrew Comiskey
Nov 15, 20223 min read
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Dignify and Deploy 27: Restoring Woman’s Dignity
‘He suffused me without difficulty, burst my shame and the thoughts I’d suppressed… As if He had touched a rhythm in my temples and...

Andrew Comiskey
Nov 9, 20223 min read
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