Category: Catholic Reflections
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Confessions on Confession
Introduction I was 24 the last time I went to confession. Kneeling across from a priest I had known since I was nine, I openly admitted that I struggled with insecurity about my body. Before launching into pastoral reassurance and a reminder of my dignity, he probed with a question: “Which part of your body?…
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Rethinking Pomp and Circumstance in the Catholic Church
When Jesus of Nazareth told Pilate, “My kingdom is not of this world,” He wasn’t being poetic. He was naming a rupture, a severing between the power structures of empire and the new order He embodied: one marked by humility, vulnerability, and open arms rather than lush robes. And yet, in the centuries that followed,…
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Faith or Obedience? The Passive Catholic and the Crisis of Discernment
Why do so many educated, faithful Catholics defer their discernment to clergy? A reflection on systemic passivity in the Church and the call to active faith. A Faithful Friend and a Strange Image Catholicism is often accused of being rigid or overly hierarchical, but perhaps one of its deeper, more insidious issues is not rigidity,…