Andrew Comiskey
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 27
- 3 min
Open Letter to Pope Francis: A Father Disciplines
Dear Pope Francis, I just returned from a Living Waters group where Jesus is healing broken lives aspiring to chastity. My co-teacher...
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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 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
- 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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Abigail Foard
- Feb 6
- 2 min
Wounds that Heal
During a recent prayer meeting, Andrew prayed for a hurting friend: ‘May what seems traumatizing now become a path for deeper healing.’...
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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
- 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 19, 2022
- 3 min
Dignify and Deploy 37: Clear, Merciful Sight
‘Humanity is going through a remarkably fluid period of history…a time of collapsing values and ideologies in which he who wishes to go...
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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
- May 9, 2022
- 3 min
Optical Illusion
Building A Bridge film review How you tell a story can cover a multitude of sins. Watching Amazon’s documentary on a-not-very-good-book...
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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 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
- Jul 12, 2021
- 2 min
Freedom From Sin is Freedom for Life
Original Entry Date: October 21, 2014 ‘The Cross becomes a new center of gravity for bringing together what is divided.’ Pope Emeritus...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Mar 25, 2021
- 15 min
The Converting Power of Chastity (Feat. Article in 'Coming Home Network International' Newsletter)
I remember always loving the cross. Growing up in a beach town near Los Angeles in the sixties and seventies, my three siblings and I...
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