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2017-02-26T23:01:11-04:00

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Being Forgiven

Last updated on: February 26, 2017 at 11:01 pm By Chase Padusniak

Last night the deacon’s homily emphasized the reciprocal nature of forgiveness: we forgive so that we ourselves may be forgiven. Without question, this is a beautiful sentiment. But we typically only understand it in one direction: if I forgive others, I will be forgiven by the Lord, my god. Again, lovely, and probably the hardest thing for most people; it’s incredibly easy to hold a grudge, to hang on to hate, to continue to judge long past the point of... Read more

2017-02-25T21:52:18-04:00

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Our Daily Bread

Last updated on: February 25, 2017 at 9:52 pm By Chase Padusniak

Not the Eucharist. I recall being in third grade, given an assignment to visualize the “Our Father;” particularly, we were told to write individual lines from the prayer on construction paper, weaved ‘round with depictions of their content. “Our Father, who art in heaven” might have yielded a smiling, bearded man looking down from on high, a sun inhabiting the corner of the paper, probably smiling too. I liked that assignment because it made a familiar prayer weird. Not coming... Read more

2017-02-22T17:30:14-04:00

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Empty Traditionalism

Last updated on: February 22, 2017 at 5:30 pm By Chase Padusniak

Whoever is versed in the jargon does not have to say what he thinks, does not even have to think it properly. The jargon takes over this task. – Theodor Adorno This is not a hit job. A hit job would be un-critical defamation of “Traditionalist” philosophy, a takedown with no advice, the always-stale, but ever-present, “gotcha” of so much theoretical talk. I’ve done things like that before, and I repent—this is something different. This is (obliquely) an attempt to... Read more

2017-02-16T22:21:18-04:00

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The Sensuous Catholic Body

Last updated on: February 16, 2017 at 10:21 pm By Chase Padusniak

This one will be short, because my point is singular: American Catholics must avoid the Protestantization of the body. This is a pressing concern for me because I’ve met so many (especially young) Catholics who feel a need to give up everything upon entering the Church, as if all things were unclean for the Christian (au contraire). The body is often at the center of this introspection: must I stop playing video games because many involve nudity? What about films... Read more

2017-02-16T13:03:19-04:00

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A Catholic Leftism?

Last updated on: February 16, 2017 at 1:03 pm By Chase Padusniak

Lots of people seem to think the “Catholic Left” is a contradiction in terms. Surely some 19th-century bishops looked with suspicion upon socialists, social democrats, and the like who peopled their flocks. Today a portion of U.S. Catholics bandy about the word “Leftist” to the point of near total confusion. From Hillary Clinton to Bernie Sanders to Karl Marx (and how great the gaps are), Leftists are to be distrusted. This is a position I feel I understand, in part,... Read more

2017-02-15T00:44:33-04:00

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“Yes”

Last updated on: February 15, 2017 at 12:44 am By Chase Padusniak

I can’t shake this feeling: Mary said “yes.” She said “yes.” She said, as the Latin Angelus goes, “be it done unto me according to Thy word.” How mundane! How small is the word “yes.” Yes, how many times a day we bandy it about. And yet, this statement shook the world. The Mother of God can be said to be the Theotokos, the God-bearer, a primary means of our salvation, precisely because she uttered simple words of affirmation, precisely... Read more

2017-02-13T18:55:08-04:00

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We Are All Extremists

Last updated on: February 13, 2017 at 6:55 pm By Chase Padusniak

Extremism is a popular topic these days. For the “Right,” it’s of the Islamic variety; for the “Left,” it’s of the white nationalist sort. Both rely on the abstraction of a small number of particularly violent or offensive actors in order to extract a kernel of truth from the historical opponent of choice. Anjem Choudary becomes the unmoored, secret essence of Islam; Richard Spenser betrays the perverse, unconscious desires of white America. There is, of course, some truth in any... Read more

2017-02-10T23:22:04-04:00

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Imagining Unity with the Churches of the East

Last updated on: February 10, 2017 at 11:22 pm By Guest Contributor

This post is by a new friend of mine, Ben Martin, a PhD student in the philosophy department at Loyola Chicago (he is Roman Catholic). Below you will find his thoughts on re-union between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches. He may be reached at [email protected] for further comment and discussion. Before we discuss the restoration of communion among the churches, we should discuss the terminology with which we speak of churches. I have often heard Eastern Catholics present themselves as belonging... Read more

2017-02-09T18:25:00-04:00

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We Stand Accused

Last updated on: February 9, 2017 at 6:25 pm By Chase Padusniak

Times are, to read the news, bleak. And if I needed any additional confirmation, my own recent sourness stands in accusation. I accuse myself: recently I have been less patient, less kind, than I ought. And yet—to rip it out of context—as the old hymn goes: the saints come marching in. Today, February 9th, is the feast (in the Ruthenian Church) of St. Nicephorus of Antioch. Saying my morning prayers, I was struck by the brief comment Archbishop Raya makes... Read more

2017-02-09T02:14:47-04:00

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Beware the But(t)

Last updated on: February 9, 2017 at 2:14 am By Chase Padusniak

This is a continuation of my recent “Catholic first” shtick (though I suppose that’s always supposed to be a Catholic’s shtick). I’m interested in something I’ve noted in many groups, though my concern here is obviously my own: Catholics. We affirm the same principles, what some might call lip service, but then demure when it comes to actually agreeing—it’s a sort of equivocation. Take the recent refugee-migrant-immigrant-Muslim (pick your poison) ban. No Catholic can deny that there is, within the... Read more

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