Andrew Comiskey
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 20
- 2 min
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...
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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 23
- 3 min
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...
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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
- 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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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 28, 2022
- 3 min
Coming Together: Advent of Integration 1
‘It is time to wake up from sleep’ (Romans 13:11). Wake up. Welcome the wholeness that is yours. Receive it. Lay hold of it. At the dawn...
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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 20, 2022
- 3 min
Dignify and Deploy 38: Blind Spots
‘Now we see through a glass darkly…’ (I Cor. 13:12) Blame it on too much pressure. Too many important decisions that impact thousands of...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 17, 2022
- 3 min
Dignify and Deploy 35: A Way in the Wilderness
‘Theology of the Body constitutes a kind of timebomb set to go off in the third millennium of the Church...it may well be seen as a...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 9, 2022
- 3 min
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...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 6, 2022
- 3 min
Dignify and Deploy 24: Liberating Sexuality through Almighty Mercy
‘The concrete challenge of love can’t be separated from Him; it is always in Him.’ Karol Wojtyla Along with several others, John Wimber...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 5, 2022
- 2 min
Dignify and Deploy 23: Anchoring Sexuality in the Beauty of Creation
‘Jesus testifies that the mystery of creation becomes the power of the mystery of redemption’ (Theology of the Body 46:5). John Wimber...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 4, 2022
- 3 min
Dignify and Deploy 22: Kingdom Couple
“What Christ demands of His listeners in the Sermon on the Mount belongs to that space in which man must rediscover the lost fullness of...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 1, 2022
- 3 min
Dignify and Deploy 19: Kingdom for the World
‘St. John Paul II made the world consider its need for redemption, and that the need had been met in the life, death and resurrection of...
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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 16, 2022
- 3 min
Dignify and Deploy 3: Truth and Freedom
‘It is only in the mystery of the Word made flesh that the mystery of man truly becomes clear.’ (Gaudium et Spes 22) John Wimber inspired...
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