My Letter to the Readers of Patheos Catholic

Last updated on: August 3, 2016 at 2:39 am by Sam Rocha

My Letter to the Readers of Patheos Catholic 2016-08-03T02:39:19-05:00 Sam Rocha

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Today I posted an editorial letter at The Font, where I plan to periodically communicate on behalf of the channel.

Here is an excerpt:

For fans and critics alike: In the near future I will hopefully be able to announce other initiatives taken by Patheos Catholic to enable person-to-person meetings. Whether this interests you or not, we should not let the digital medium replace the analog reality. Surely this is something that can be better observed by all sides, but even when this goes unnoticed I find solace in the fact that person-to-person engagement can and will always have the capacity to turn ugly. This capacity for ugliness is a felix culpa of freedom and authenticity.

Maybe this ugliness is new in the form of the online blog and social media. I doubt it. This doesn’t excuse it on any set of principles, certainly not Catholic ones, but it does suggest that showing humanity includes showing the side of the human condition that is angry, afraid, defensive, lonely, and wounded. Maybe that is why we write here in the first place. Perhaps we are all a bit lonely out there. Maybe this anxious time is but a reproduction of the same anxieties we read in scripture. May we all find some peace and rest–and humor and wit–in the great source of consolation from that anxiety we find in Christ.

Read it all here.

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