Andrew Comiskey
Treasure
‘Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart’ (Lk. 2:19, 51). Aging agitates me. Docility flows not peaceably from...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Dec 15, 2021
- 2 min
Once More, With Conviction
I couldn’t respect Pope Francis more for his heart for the poor. And like you, I love his jocular, down-to-earth style. Yet I find his...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 19, 2021
- 3 min
Day 38: Freedom for the World
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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Marco Casanova
- Nov 13, 2021
- 2 min
Day 32: Freedom to Forge Community
By Marco Casanova DSM Assistant Director A couple of years ago, Andrew and I were running a half-marathon. On route, we passed my midtown...
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Annette Comiskey
- Nov 2, 2021
- 2 min
Day 21: Wounds that Heal -- The Gift of Light
by Annette Comiskey DSM Director at Large ”For He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 1, 2021
- 2 min
Day 20: Wounds that Heal
I don’t like wounds. I’d rather avoid them: maybe the bloody mess will coagulate and heal itself. When I fractured my toes running, I...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 17, 2021
- 2 min
Day 5: The Divider and Disintegration
‘The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy…’ (Jn. 10:10) Integration is wholeness, and God who created and redeems us, its...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 11, 2021
- 2 min
Close the Gap
‘You see the trouble we are in…in ruins, our gates burned with fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall…and we will no longer be in disgrace’...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Aug 9, 2021
- 4 min
Ten Takeaways from 'Pray Away'
Winnowing wheat from chaff in service of persons pursuing wholeness Clarify terms and set realistic expectations. Jesus grants us...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Jun 21, 2021
- 4 min
Exposing the Exposé – Part II
By Marco Casanova and Andrew Comiskey Eve Tushnet, in her article ‘Conversion Therapy is Still Happening in Catholic Spaces – and its...
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Marie
- Jun 7, 2021
- 3 min
Restored Fullness
Twice now I have discerned the call to marriage. Once with a woman and once with a man. I am a woman driven by my desire to love fully,...
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Andrew Comiskey
- May 24, 2021
- 3 min
Fire in the Valley
‘You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you will be my witnesses’ (Acts 1:8). Easter primes us with the oil of...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Mar 13, 2021
- 2 min
Never Lovelier (at 65)
Today marks my bride’s 65th birthday. Never lovelier, she reminds me that virtue deepens and resounds with age. Time amplifies faults as...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Dec 16, 2020
- 3 min
Something About Mary
Here, evangelicals tremble: has Catholic-convert Comiskey gone over to the dark-side of Marian devotion? Is he in cahoots with the...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 22, 2020
- 4 min
Radical Wholeness: Day 40
‘Aquinas assigns intemperance to the “roving unrest of spirit”, which he says is the first-born daughter of acedia (or sloth)…Acedia is...
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