100 words (give or take) on… Bishops
A bishop is a priest who receives “the fullness of the sacrament of Holy Orders” (CCC, 1557) and is the visible head of a particular…
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Out of Our Comfort Zone
I love rocking chairs. Whenever I go on retreat, as I did last week, I hope that they have a rocking chair at the retreat…
At what point does my disagreement with the church’s teachings become a break with the church itself?
The first big conflict in the Church was over whether to admit Gentiles to baptism, without binding them to practice all the laws of Moses,…
Smashed at the Vatican
The Vatican is the smallest country in the world. Until recently, I always thought of that fact as a neat bit of trivia and nothing…