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The Christian faith drives ideologues crazy.  And as our ideologies change, so do the things that irritate us about the Faith.  But there’s always something.  Because, in this fallen world, we do not really progress.  We wobble.  Yesterday’s crazy ideology breeds rebels who throw off the crazy old ideology and

One of the most exasperating bits of exegetical trendiness to afflict First World Catholics for the past thirty years or so has been the endless recirculation, like a bad penny, of the True Meaning of the Miracles of the Loaves and Fishes homily. It goes like this: Jesus found himself

There are two traditions—East and West—when it comes to the sacrament of Confirmation, and they show how doctrine can develop and unfold within the Church much as the branches on the mustard plant can develop from the seed in ways which, while different for different branches, retain the mustardiness of