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I just watched Lily Phillips interview for newsnight and now I want to go cry into a pillow. The fact that someone can insist so many times that porn and sex marathons make her happy while talking about things that are clearly traumatic and looking so unhappy is a sad commentary on what an impoverished and temporally blind concept of happiness and freedom we have thrust upon a generation. What prophet can speak to these porn-numbed young people and awaken them from their stupor. Perhaps only Father Time, and his lessons are not kind.
With Holy Week approaching, I was thinking of sharing a short daily meditation from St. Thomas Aquinas. Nothing from me—just his wisdom—but I’d do my best to walk you through it and help you understand it. Would that interest you?
Fr. Reed was one of my instructors in seminary and a friend with whom I’ve occasionally had the pleasure of conversing in the two decades since. While recognizing that it is easy to be surprised these days by the private lives of others, I don’t think Fr. Reed the type to have done anything wrong as indicated and I pray for him and all i…
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I refuse to be the kind of person who loses their mind over a delayed train or lets a spilled coffee set the tone for the whole day.
I want to be the one who stays composed, who sees the good even when things don’t go as planned. The kind of person who breathes through the little chaos and still finds beauty in how the day unfolds.
I want to be soft. I want to be steady.
JD, three thank yous from me.
First, thank you for pursuing the Principi story even as--astonishingly--virtually nobody else is talking about it. I've read a lot of Catholic news, including a lot of really dark stuff, but this story perhaps disturbs me more than just about any other story I've read recently. It feels like the most systemic problem in the Church lain bare--and to a symphonic chorus of crickets, save for you all. Truth dies in darkness, they say, so keep that spotlight pointed at this story.
Second, thank you to your wife for everything she has done. I have brother with developmental disabilities and have been navigating the Church, education, and all else with him since I was born. I remember tears came to my eyes the first time I heard of the FIRE Foundation because it felt like--for the first time in my several decades of life--somebody in the Church looked at my brother and said, "You are the Church too. Your education matters too." She, and FIRE as a whole, are heroes to me.
Third, thank you for bringing the Jubilee for People with Disabilities to our attention, and for your generous spirit with the pilgrimage. Hugely meaningful, even for those who are unable to go.