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October 2014

October 05, 2014

Christ Promised a Crown of Thorns, not a Bed of Roses

When I was rather younger, and attending an evangelically-flavored Episcopal parish, I participated in a...

September 2014

September 28, 2014

How Can You Love the Siblings You Haven’t Seen If You Don’t Love the Siblings You Have?

It's been said that home is where, when you have to go there, they have...

September 21, 2014

The Enlightened Family: Why, It All Makes Sense!

In paragraphs 52 and 53 of Lumen Fidei, Pope Francis talks about the light that...

September 14, 2014

The Terrible Contradiction of Staffing

In Chapter 4 of Lumen Fidei, Pope Francis notes that the story of faith isn't...

September 07, 2014

The Glorious Multiplicity of Creation

Two weeks ago I looked at paragraphs 48 and 49 of Lumen Fidei, and talked...

August 2014

August 24, 2014

The Glorious Multiplicity of the Magisterium

The phrase "the magisterium of the Church" is simply a fancy phrase for the teaching...

August 17, 2014

Pope Francis on Fellow Travelers and True Believers

Historically, the phrase "fellow travelers" was used of those who sympathized with the aims and...

August 03, 2014

Lumen Fidei: The Ten Commandments, an Invitation to Love

The first thing that comes to most people's minds when you say, "The Ten Commandments,"...

July 2014

July 27, 2014

Lumen Fidei: Claiming the Community

In paragraph 45 of Lumen Fidei, Pope Francis makes a point about the Profession of...

July 20, 2014

Lumen Fidei: The Gift of Baptism

In chapter 3 of Lumen Fidei, Pope Francis is talking about the role of the...

July 13, 2014

Lumen Fidei: The Crystallized Love of God

In paragraph 40 of Lumen Fidei, Pope Francis repeats something that cannot be too often...

July 06, 2014

Lumen Fidei: It Ain’t A Game of Telephone

In last week's selection from Lumen Fidei, Pope Francis talked about how faith spreads from...

June 2014

June 29, 2014

Lumen Fidei: The Light That Spreads and Blazes

Chapter 3 of Lumen Fidei (yes, we've finally made it to Chapter 3!) is about the...

June 22, 2014

Lumen Fidei: The Humility of Theology

Theology, everyone knows, is the study of things divine, or, at least, the study of...

June 15, 2014

Lumen Fidei: The Pursuit of the Good, the True, and the Beautiful

Continuing with Paragraph 35 of Lumen Fidei, Pope Francis talks about those who seek God...

June 08, 2014

Lumen Fidei: Mirroring God

In paragraph 35 of Lumen Fidei I find this interesting comment. Pope Francis is saying...

June 01, 2014

Lumen Fidei: Remounting My Hobby Horse

One of my hobby horses is the relationship between faith and reason in general, and...

May 2014

May 25, 2014

Lumen Fidei: When Practice and Theory Don’t Match

There's an old joke that's not really a joke: Q: What's the difference between theory...

May 18, 2014

Lumen Fidei: Is Truth Totalitarian?

In paragraph 34 of Lumen Fidei, Pope Francis writes, Truth nowadays is often reduced to...

May 11, 2014

Lumen Fidei: Hearing His Voice, Seeing His Face

In paragraph 28 of Lumen Fidei, Pope Francis points out that faith-knowledge is relational: God...

May 04, 2014

Lumen Fidei: Truth Requires Love-in-Action

In paragraph 27 of Lumen Fidei, Pope Francis looks at the relationship between truth and...

April 2014

April 13, 2014

Lumen Fidei: Foundations, Creaky and Solid

I'm writing these Lumen Fidei posts mostly for the Catholics in the crowd, but the...

April 06, 2014

Lumen Fidei: The Vine and the Branches

We often speak as though to be a Christian you have to be good—as though...

March 2014

March 23, 2014

Called from the Labyrinth

Last week in my series of posts on Lumen Fidei I focussed on paragraph 13,...

March 16, 2014

Lumen Fidei: Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride through the Labyrinth of Idolatry

Continuing with my journey through Lumen Fidei, I come to paragraph 13. Here Pope Francis...

March 09, 2014

Lighting the Path Ahead

We've been talking a lot about faith here at Cry Woof over the last few...

March 02, 2014

Lumen Fidei: The Light of Faith

I've finished my series on "Bootstrapping the Interior Life" for the time being; and as...