Andrew Comiskey
Does the Church Kill ‘Gay’ People?
Part 2: The MacGuffin of Conversion Therapy This is the second blog of our three-part series. If you haven’t already, please read part 1...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Aug 21
- 3 min
Sloth: A Slow Suicide
Originally published March 9, 2015 ‘Sloth is a kind of oppressive sorrow that so depresses a man that he wants to do nothing.’- St....
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Andrew Comiskey
- Jul 24
- 3 min
Fault Line
‘Gay’ selves splinter into a ‘trans’ nation. The moral and psychological fault line underneath today’s homosexuality widens into a...
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Katie Comiskey
- Jun 30
- 2 min
Blazing Heart
Today marks both the final day of Pride month and the month dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Celebrating life under the ‘rainbow’...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Jun 26
- 2 min
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...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Jun 13
- 3 min
Language of Love: A Letter to My Kids
After I spoke to one of my children about why I take pains (and risk causing pain) to not use LGBTQ+ language in defining people, I wrote...
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An anonymous Living Waters leader
- Jun 11
- 2 min
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...
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Andrew Comiskey
- May 28
- 2 min
Look Listen Live
‘When we find ourselves in the presence of such beautiful souls, we cannot but discover in them an obvious sign of the experience of...
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Andrew Comiskey
- May 1
- 3 min
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...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Apr 3
- 2 min
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...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Mar 20
- 3 min
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...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Mar 6
- 3 min
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...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Feb 25
- 3 min
Beachhead: Review of Jesus Revolution
Something sweet and true runs through this film about hippies ‘getting saved’ in Woodstock-era Southern California. (I caught the...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Feb 13
- 2 min
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...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Jan 30
- 2 min
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...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Jan 8
- 3 min
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...
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Marco Casanova
- Dec 19, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Dec 5, 2022
- 3 min
Declare Your Ground: Advent of Integration 2
‘If you don’t stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all’ (Is. 7:9). Christian, never apologize for upholding persons in their...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 22, 2022
- 3 min
Dignify and Deploy 40: Dignity for All
‘It is Jesus who provokes you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is He who urges you to shed...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 8, 2022
- 3 min
Dignify and Deploy 26: Hopeful Realists
‘The great choice posed to the human person in the modern world: deciding between sanctity and the loss of one’s humanity.’ (Witness to...
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