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Pope Leo XIV, Let’s Convert the World
‘What the Church needs going forward is a leader who can marry personal simplicity with a passion for converting the world to Jesus...

Andrew Comiskey
May 133 min read
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Compassion IS Chastity
The best-kept secret of Pope Francis’ papacy? Robust chastity, blazing in sinner’s sick of filth and on fire for the One who forgave and...

Andrew Comiskey
May 53 min read
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Refining Father
Jorge Bergoglio became Pope Francis just two years into my Catholic commitment. This began a deeply personal, disruptive, and...

Andrew Comiskey
Apr 283 min read
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How Homosexuality Can Heal the Church
‘Any community based on a shared injury will not set people free. Integration—wholeness—must involve otherness.’ Rediscovering Our Lost...

Andrew Comiskey
Mar 312 min read
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Prisoners, or Pilgrims of Hope?
‘As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit. Return to your fortress, O...

Andrew Comiskey
Jan 272 min read
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Forever Young
God is younger than all else. St. Augustine I have a 99-year-old mother who doesn’t worry about the gap between a body that hurts and...

Andrew Comiskey
Jan 202 min read
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Aliens in America: Day 16
Compassion for the Alien ‘As aliens, live in reverent fear’ (1 Pet. 1:17) ‘Migrants are among the first victims of multiple forms of...

Andrew Comiskey
Oct 29, 20243 min read
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Aliens in America: Day 15
Think ‘As aliens, live in reverent fear’ (1 Pet. 1:17) ‘I’ve come to know more and more the profound this-worldliness of...

Andrew Comiskey
Oct 28, 20243 min read
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Suffer Well
Grateful for this tiny Adoration chapel: a safe space to love this Head whose Body threatens to divide my heart. Like you, I’ve wounds...

Andrew Comiskey
Jul 22, 20243 min read
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No Gimmicks Part 1
‘Something is true not because the Church teaches it. The Church teaches something because it is true,’ as quoted by Fr. Paul Check. A...

Andrew Comiskey
May 20, 20243 min read
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Pope Francis, Do What You Declare: Dignitas Infinita, Part 2
If I were an LGBTQ+-identified person, I would be mad. How can Pope Francis bless me as ‘one born that way, God made me that way, and the...

Andrew Comiskey
Apr 29, 20244 min read
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Medicine for Motion Sickness: Dignitas Infinita, Part 1
‘We cannot separate the masculine and the feminine from God’s work of creation, which is prior to all our decisions and experiences, and...

Andrew Comiskey
Apr 22, 20244 min read
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Limping to New Life
I Will Arise ‘Weary and weak—accept my weariness. Weary and weak and downcast in soul, With hope growing less and less, And with the goal...

Andrew Comiskey
Apr 1, 20242 min read
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Foot Washing: Whose House?
‘I will pour out on you a spirit of grace and supplication… We will look upon the One we have pierced and will mourn as one grieves for...

Andrew Comiskey
Mar 13, 20244 min read
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Courage of Our Convictions #1
“The bishops are oblivious to the implications of Fiducia Supplicans,” I grumbled to my spiritual director. “I don’t think that’s true,...

Marco Casanova
Mar 9, 20244 min read
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Foot-Washing: Pierced
‘I will pour out on you a spirit of grace and supplication… We will look upon the One we have pierced and will mourn as one grieves for...

Andrew Comiskey
Feb 21, 20244 min read
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Personal Path
Andrew Comiskey and Marco Casanova ‘Our freedom hinges on realizing truthful integrity.’- St. John Paul II Two groups protest our...

Andrew Comiskey
Jan 15, 20244 min read
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Untangling Knotty Blessings
‘We have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. Rather, by setting forth the...

Andrew Comiskey
Jan 8, 20243 min read
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Manifest Destiny
My ‘gay’-identified friend Tim needs Jesus. Finally. It’s taken decades and a terminal condition for him to soften to the God-man. And I...

Andrew Comiskey
Jan 5, 20243 min read
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What Lies Beneath?
Editor’s Note: Annette wrote this year-end piece about wounded systems and symptoms. I loved it and thought it worth repeating. What is...

Annette Comiskey
Jan 2, 20243 min read
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