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2016-08-20T12:41:16-04:00

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On God’s Time

Last updated on: August 20, 2016 at 12:41 pm By Chase Padusniak

Waiting weighs us down and patience demands so much. Whether it’s excitedly counting the days until a loved one visits, dreading the time until a stressful meeting (or exam or paper), or simply biding time during an unbearable social obligation, waiting remains—interminable. Yet, waiting is not always so mundane. Sometimes its requirements are writ large on our lives. I think of my teenage self, lying in bed, trying to sleep, but shaken with pain. A throbbing discomfort welling up in... Read more

2016-08-19T18:34:39-04:00

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How We Live

Last updated on: August 19, 2016 at 6:34 pm By Chase Padusniak

And where we live are quite often connected—two sides of a single cultural coin, aspects of our lives with subtle consequences. It’s trite, but culture has a heck of a lot to do with place. For example, I grew up in: New Jersey. I grew up in (and still live in—it’s pretty great, sorry) New Jersey. Suburban New Jersey to be precise, but New Jersey nonetheless—never far from New York City, Philadelphia, the beach, mountains (or what we call “mountains”),... Read more

2016-08-17T21:26:43-04:00

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When Your Enemies Are Christians

Last updated on: August 17, 2016 at 9:26 pm By Chase Padusniak

Enemies broadly speaking anyway. This topic has stuck with me. Growing up American (read: secular), attending a Jesuit college, interacting with conservative evangelicals, I’ve met a plethora of Christians. It’s not totally uncommon for me to encounter one, then another, and then hear them bad mouth (or, perhaps, as some say: “charitably—but not to their faces—rebuke”) their theological, social, or simply general, opposite. And although we rarely call these people our enemies, we often treat them as such. My example... Read more

2016-08-27T15:54:51-04:00

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The Dirty “P” Word

Last updated on: August 27, 2016 at 3:54 pm By Chase Padusniak

Pastoral. From pastor, as in, a shepherd. In the Catholic circles in which I run (broadly orthodox in liturgy and theology—though I will be the first to admit that that doesn’t always mean the same thing as traditional does to some. I don’t wear a suit on Sundays. Anyway), pastoral can be a bad word. Whatever it might mean, its connotations are clear enough: uncertain, untrustworthy, basically snake-like. To the most convinced mind, it means something like “wiggle room for... Read more

2017-09-20T18:16:44-04:00

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Pray with Icons!

Last updated on: September 20, 2017 at 6:16 pm By Chase Padusniak

For my Byzantine Catholic and Orthodox brethren, I’m preaching to the choir; the title of this post may as well be “go to liturgy!” or “Jesus Christ: God-Man!” But, after a somewhat shaky reaction from some Orthodox to my recent request for prayers for the Bulgarian Church, I’d like to show my love (both as a Byzantine Catholic and just as a Christian) for the traditions of the East. More than that, however, I have personally benefitted from prayer with... Read more

2016-08-12T11:55:21-04:00

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Prayers for the Bulgarian Church

Last updated on: August 12, 2016 at 11:55 am By Chase Padusniak

A little while ago I took a little bit (not quite boiling, more like low-simmer) heat for my “anti-Orthodox sentiments” (not a quote, but you get the idea). I wrote: There was a time when I considered becoming Eastern Orthodox. The richness of the theology, its emphasis on mystery, the centrality of theosis—and a passion for Westerners like Eckhart and Eriugena—made “conversion” appealing, though only ever in my heart. Factors stopped me—nationalism, ethnocentrism, quibbling—hardly the antidotes to the hyper-rationalism, Americanism, and pretension I found... Read more

2017-09-04T20:06:24-04:00

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Confessions of a Catholic Cynic

Last updated on: September 4, 2017 at 8:06 pm By Chase Padusniak

No. I’m not that sort of Cynic (though sometimes I wish I were). I don’t live in a barrel, defecate and masturbate in public, or ask the emperor to stand out of my sun. Alas, I’m no Diogenes. No. I’m the much worse sort—incredulous, sarcastic, broody. It’s been with me all my life. Internally, anyway. A good idea? I have a better one. A well-written piece? I’ll have identified every problem in minutes. Your dog is cute? I’ve not only... Read more

2016-08-07T17:44:12-04:00

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Can a Catholic Vote for the American Solidarity Party?

Last updated on: August 7, 2016 at 5:44 pm By Chase Padusniak

Yes. I ought to come clean from the beginning: I am a member of the American Solidarity Party, a self-styled Christian Democratic group, dedicated to the pro-life cause, non-binary economic principles, and other positions generally not controversial among orthodox Christians. And, as a long-time member (a year or two), it’s been weird (but exciting) to see so much coverage of the party spawn so quickly. From First Things to Aleteia, to Mark Shea’s blog, among others, arguments for our little... Read more

2016-08-07T18:37:12-04:00

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I’m a Proud American, Even Though I Don’t Want to Be

Last updated on: August 7, 2016 at 6:37 pm By Chase Padusniak

Maybe one or two of you noticed (may God bless me with so many readers!) that I have been away for the last couple of weeks. As you probably surmised from the title, I was in Europe: Germany and Italy to be precise. I had meant to write a goodbye before my trip, but the typical pre-airport rush swept me away. My apologies! More importantly, both countries were lovely—rich in history, rife with differences, and bloated with the decadence an... Read more

2017-02-10T23:22:49-04:00

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1054: History, Myth, and the Making of a Schism (Part III)

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

Here I am proud to present part three of this three-part series on the Great Schism of 1054. Parts I and II may be found here and here respectively. However, in a letter to the Patriarch of Antioch written shortly after the document of excommunication, Cerularius does, in fact, go on to attack the entire Western Church in much stronger terms. To begin with, Cerularius says that he has heard that Peter of Antioch considers himself in communion with the Church... Read more

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