…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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Category: Ars Praedicandi
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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Ars Praedicandi: Quality of Life? Or New Life in the Risen Lord?
The content of our new life is to be thankful and to share the good news with the world that he is risen
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley, Second Sunday of Lent
“The opening of Lent was literally a day of guns and roses…”
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Ars Praedicandi: Listening in the Wilderness
Some people give up something for Lent—chocolate, or booze, or some other pleasure. Some people instead take on a discipline or a practice, like daily devotions or acts of mission. Whatever we decide to do, or not to do, it seems to me that the most important thing in these forty days is to listen to what God is saying to us.
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Ars Praedicandi: Even Now
We are living in very challenging times, to say the least. We’re deeply divided along the fault lines of race, nationality, gender, culture, politics, religion.
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