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Ecstasy of a Wounded Man
“Erotic love shows most vividly one of the deepest paradoxes of human life: that we are complete and fulfilled not so much in being...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Jan 16
- 2 min
65 Down
‘Undeniably great is the mystery of devotion...’ (1 Tim. 3:15) I just crossed the 65-year-old mark where Medicare agents ask you upbeat...
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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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Andrew Comiskey
- Jan 2
- 3 min
20-Minute Miracle
My Christmas started with a minor miracle. Really. Chalk it up to St. Joseph. I am not inclined to pray to saints, even if legendary like...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Dec 26, 2022
- 3 min
Flesh and Stones
Why does Christmas Day fold into the stoning of Stephen? Why does your calendar, O Church, disturb our reverie with bloodshed? Why must...
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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 12, 2022
- 3 min
Joyful Generation: Advent of Integration 3
‘Perhaps what we modern people most need is to be genuinely shaken, so that where life is grounded, we would feel its stability; and...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 7, 2022
- 3 min
Dignify and Deploy 25: Humanizing Sexual Wholeness
‘How, Wojtyla asks, can men and women become responsible lovers, so that our sexual love embodies a genuine freedom?... I cannot achieve...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 22, 2022
- 3 min
Dignify and Deploy 9: Gospel Ground
‘Whenever I remember the beautiful days of our salvation, I can almost smell the orange blossoms again. The whole experience for both of...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 3, 2022
- 2 min
Facing Futility, Tenderly
I could see and hear how much he wanted the relationship to work, to be true: he needed this new guy to be the one that silenced all the...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Aug 1, 2022
- 2 min
Made New, Together
‘When You send Your Spirit, they are created; You renew the face of the earth.’ (PS 104:30) The branches are beckoning. Two peach trees I...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Jul 4, 2022
- 2 min
Life, Liberty, Happiness
I am happy this Liberty Day. America’s top court finally got it right. We defend the unborn living and give voice to their real lives. We...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Jun 27, 2022
- 3 min
Impoverished Care, Part II
By Marco Casanova and Andrew Comiskey Review of ‘Still Time to Care: What We Can Learn from the Church’s Failed Attempt to Cure...
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Andrew Comiskey
- May 23, 2022
- 2 min
Kids Bring Out Our Best
A gander honked me off a running path in Raleigh as to make way for ‘mother’ goose and five goslings. Marvel overtook my startled...
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Andrew Comiskey
- May 2, 2022
- 2 min
Corridor of Mercy
‘A humanitarian corridor is a zone intended to allow safe transit of aid and of refugees out of a crisis.’ All hell broke loose in the...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Mar 30, 2022
- 2 min
Living Hope
No-one embodies the living hope of Jesus better than Dean Greer, our Living Waters USA Manager, and wife Chrystal. I met Dean in San...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Dec 5, 2021
- 2 min
Actively Waiting
‘Advent is the time of the promise, not the fulfillment.’ Fr. Alfred Delp Adele fever is back. Her new album ‘30’ is selling faster than...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 21, 2021
- 3 min
Day 40: Mature Freedom of the Gift
Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline...
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