Andrew Comiskey
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 13
- 3 min
Open Letter to Pope Francis: A Father Clarifies
Dear Pope Francis, Thank you for championing the oppressed; you help create level ground on which they regain footing and dignity. As the...
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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 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
- 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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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
- 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 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 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
- Sep 12, 2022
- 2 min
Free to Burn 2: Division
‘Do you think that I have come to bring peace? No, I tell you, but division. From now on there will be five in one family divided against...
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Andrew Comiskey
- May 16, 2022
- 3 min
Pope Francis Urges LGBTQ+ Community to Repent in the Power of the Holy Spirit
I’ve been waiting all my Catholic life for this. In response to Fr. Martin’s questions about how the Church should respond to the rainbow...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Mar 28, 2022
- 3 min
We Need a Guide.
In a culture committed to every sexual and relational variant imaginable, we need direction. A map for whole relationships. We have one...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Feb 7, 2022
- 3 min
Censoring Human Freedom
‘There’s something deeply corrosive about attempting to live in such a way that demands everyone agree with you.’ Sonny Bunch One...
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Marco Casanova
- Jan 12, 2022
- 3 min
‘New Ways’? No Way
By Marco Casanova Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Dec 19, 2021
- 3 min
Rousing Reality
‘Man becomes truly himself precisely at the point when he recognizes that the highest and brightest Being dwells within him.’ Fr. Alfred...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 28, 2021
- 2 min
Transforming Fear
Jesus is coming and He’s mad. Today’s Advent Gospel (Lk. 21:25-28; 34-36) rouses us, not with carols but a swift kick. The Son of...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 8, 2021
- 3 min
Day 27: Freedom and Struggle
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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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 6, 2021
- 2 min
Day 25: Freedom and Self-Knowledge (From a Man's Perspective)
‘If we do not see our own darkness, we cannot know the love and light of divine goodness.’ St. Catherine of Siena Annette often sees my...
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