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The Catholic Church is both conservative and liberal, both ordered and open, both a builder of walls and a builder of bridges. To seize upon one side at the expense of the other is necessarily to misunderstand her.
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Last night, Kieran Culkin won an Oscar for his work in A Real Pain. If creating a strong emotional response in the audience is a gauge of good acting then in my case it was well deserved. I had a more visceral reaction to his character in this film than to any in recent memory, I could not stand him. Mostly due to the way he inhabited that particular blend of so-called “expanded consciousness” and profound selfishness that makes me want to never stop slapping people.
His character would shame the other people around him with a type of unneeded moral grandstanding. Predictably, the result was that those he had made feel bad would sycophantically tell him how right he was and also that he is “so amazing”. I’ve seen this dynamic play out over and over again in real life. And to be clear: it is a power play.
Why? Because if someone knows they can make us feel bad, they also know that eventually we will seek them out for assurance of how we can be seen as good in their eyes. The drive humans have to protect our self-regard cannot be underestimated.
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On this Ash Wednesday, my heart is broken and every shred of hope I once had is gone.
I’m not well. My soul is sick. I see nothing but greed, destruction, lying, inhumanity, and evil all around.
If anyone tells me that I came from ash and will return to it, I may well laugh in their face. Or cry and never stop. I just hope I don’t hit the …
Beware of any Christian movement that acts as though the world is full of enemies to be destroyed rather than full of neighbors to be loved.
Beware of any Christian movement that demands the government be an instrument of God's wrath but never a source of God's mercy, generosity, or compassion.