Road construction is violent loud, chaotic and expensive. Today’s word, this advent season, announces an even more chaotic construction project one of global, even cosmic proportions…
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Category: Ars Praedicandi
Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley on the First Sunday of Advent
…in these days such apocalyptic readings remind us that humanity has upturned God’s created order that in our violence and greed we have allowed the aboriginal chaos to return that in our racism and xenophobia
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley on Christ the King
How do we speak truth, especially to power while maintaining the Jesus demeanor and not resorting to rhetorical, or political or even physical violence?
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Ars Praedicandi: St. Oscar Romero, pray for us.
This Sunday’s canonization of Oscar Romero provided a lens through which to view the radical call to discipleship that Jesus issues to the rich man—and to all of us—in today’s Gospel.
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Ars Praedicandi: Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Difficult Times
…and so we eschew the cup and reach for the ax…and while we often attempt to wield it toward another – another individual, another tribe – we so often end up axing our own…
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley on Speaking the Truth
…every and any church that colludes in secret keeping they … we are responsible.
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Ars Praedicandi: Preaching Abuse
“We, the members of this grand jury, need you to hear this. We know some of you have heard some of it before. There have been other reports about child sex abuse within the Catholic Church. But never on this scale. For many of us, those earlier stories happened someplace else, someplace away. Now we know the truth: it happened everywhere.”
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley on John the Baptist
The wild man from beyond the borders of religious piety… of societal decency… invades Ordinary Time,
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Ars Praedicandi: The Body and Blood of Christ
Warning: this may change you. A powerful homily by Edward Foley.
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Ars Praedicandi: Trying to Say Everything
Maybe it is possible to say everything without saying all that much.
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