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2019-07-23T16:05:09-06:00

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Old Soul – Now I Know what it Means, Sadly

Last updated on: July 23, 2019 at 4:05 pm By Jack Hartjes

A couple of times recently I heard someone call my 13-year-old granddaughter an old soul. It was a compliment, I’m sure. That’s not what “old” generally is. Things don’t always improve with age, but apparently souls do. That’s what a book that some friends recommended I read tells me, anyway. My wife and I were enjoying a too-rare visit with folks we partied and prayed with in days gone by. They had, in their words, a shock for us –... Read more

Reincarnation

2019-07-23T16:05:18-06:00

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Jesus, the Master at Life and the One I Meet in the Sacraments

Last updated on: July 23, 2019 at 4:05 pm By Jack Hartjes

Celebrations of Grace: The Sacraments of the Catholic Church, Part 2 The Church’s liturgy, her way of celebrating the sacred mysteries, her sacraments, always had a strong hold on me. That fascination only grew as the liturgy changed. Meanwhile I was growing from youth to adulthood, trying to master many things besides liturgy. I would experience God really present in our liturgies, but then pretty soon I would be on about everyday occupations again. That’s the way the Christian life... Read more

Liturgy

Sacraments

2019-07-23T16:05:27-06:00

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Remembering and Comparing: How Vatican II Changed The Liturgy

Last updated on: July 23, 2019 at 4:05 pm By Jack Hartjes

Celebrations of Grace: The Sacraments of the Catholic Church, Part 1 In the early 1960’s I was studying at Sacred Heart, the minor seminary for the Green Bay Diocese. My classmates and I felt we were living at a lucky moment in history. We loved the Church, were studying her teachings, and had made a start at devoting our lives to her. And this Church was changing. The Second Vatican Council was setting new directions for the familiar Church. Who could tell... Read more

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Sacraments

2019-07-23T16:05:36-06:00

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The Church in Politics: Abortion, Environment, and Being Partisan

Last updated on: July 23, 2019 at 4:05 pm By Jack Hartjes

Church-state separation is honored in political rhetoric and welcomed by the Church since the 1930’s. (See my series on Catholic Modern, especially here.) But it has always been a relative thing. States don’t allow just any kind of religious activity, and the Church does cross the line from moral education to politics, including and taking sides for or against a political party. Sometimes the latter is necessary, as in Chile during the oppressive Pinochet dictatorship. (See this post.) The American... Read more

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Pro-Life

2023-02-27T07:56:48-06:00

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Gender Theorists: Agreements and Criticisms and a Way Forward

Last updated on: February 27, 2023 at 7:56 am By Jack Hartjes

Responding to ‘Male and Female He Created Them’ – Part 3 The Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education “listens” to gender theorists. It does so without quoting any of them but only quoting Church documents. It seems to be hearing only the most radical of gender theorists. That makes it harder to find areas of agreement and easier to criticize. In “Male and Female He Created Them” the Congregation does find things to agree with and to criticize. The agreements are... Read more

Gender and Sex

2023-02-27T07:57:23-06:00

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Listening to Gender Theory, but Not Very Well

Last updated on: February 27, 2023 at 7:57 am By Jack Hartjes

Responding to ‘Male and Female He Created Them’ – Part 2 The Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education believes that listening is a necessary first step before reasoning and proposing. This is the professed methodology in their document responding to gender theory. In spite of this good intention, the listening step is where “Male and Female He Created Them” falls down. That seriously weakens the reasoning and proposing parts of the document. The document is weak in another respect, which I... Read more

Gender and Sex

2023-02-27T08:02:01-06:00

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The Congregation for Catholic Education and Forms of Catholic Modernism

Last updated on: February 27, 2023 at 8:02 am By Jack Hartjes

Responding to ‘Male and Female He Created Them’ – Part 1 A recent declaration from the Vatican’s Congregation for Catholic Education makes gender theory a hot topic. I would like to put the Congregation’s views and proposals on gender in the context of my recent posts on the Catholic turn toward modernism. James Chappel in Catholic Modern argues that there have been two Catholic modernisms vying with each other. He labels them paternal and Fraternal Catholic modernism. The two forms... Read more

Gender and Sex

2020-06-18T12:24:16-06:00

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Minnesota was Fourth State to Make Juneteenth State Holiday

Last updated on: June 18, 2020 at 12:24 pm By Jack Hartjes

Today is Juneteenth. It was only a few years ago I learned that June 19 is a holiday in most U.S. states. I think it was when I read the prayer for this date in Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals. (That’s an ecumenical book of daily prayer.) Juneteenth is a celebration of the day in 1865 when the last geographical area in the United States heard the announcement of freedom from slavery. Union General Gordon Granger read President Lincoln’s... Read more

Social Justice

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2019-06-17T10:48:48-06:00

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The New Catholic Left in the Turbulent 1960’s

Last updated on: June 17, 2019 at 10:48 am By Jack Hartjes

The last post in the series on Catholic Modern by James Chappel. The turbulent 1960’s included the sexual revolution, feminism, the civil rights movement, worker uprisings, and the identification and rejection of Western Imperialism. These secular movements did not leave the Church untouched. In fact, the Second Vatican Council tried to respond to Pope John XXIII’s call to “open the windows” of the Church to the world. In this last chapter of Catholic Modern, James Chappel identifies a part of the... Read more

Catholic Modern

2019-06-17T10:49:05-06:00

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Catholic Consensus in the Consumer Society of the ‘Long 1950’s’

Last updated on: June 17, 2019 at 10:49 am By Jack Hartjes

Despite the Catholic Church’s long rejection of materialism, it was a consumer society that brought opposing elements of the Church into a consensus in the “long 1950’s.” James Chappel, in Chapter 5 of Catholic Modern, dates this period from 1949 to 1964. Chappel’s theme concerns the two different ways Catholics pursued being modern since the 1930’s. In his terminology, “paternal modernists” were the majority, but “fraternal modernists” made up a significant minority. In previous chapters Chappel explores their differences on three intertwining issues – family, the economy,... Read more

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