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Daily Catechesis for Catholic Kids: A pedagogy of desire in the domestic church

Last week, while watching WandaVision (no spoilers here), there was a scene in which one of the characters was describing another in a very reductionist way. I paused the show, and asked my kids abruptly, “What would JPII say?” My seven-year-old daughter responded, “That this is bad” (and the look […]

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The Theology of the Body and Music – A Desire for God

I was invited to speak for the Newman Centre at U of T’s Mentorship Series in October on St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. I’ve been leading a faith study on the theology of the body at Newman since 2015, but for this short one hour talk, I […]

A network not of wires but of people: David Weinberger on Pope Francis

As an avid reader of both David Weinberger and Pope Francis, it was very interesting to see those two worlds collide in Weinberger’s cross-tradition interpretation of Pope Francis’ message for World Communications Day. First, Weinberger looks at Pope Francis’ initial characterization of the Internet: The internet, in particular, offers immense […]

Amhrán Mhuínse

I fell in love with this song 10 years ago in Ireland (a different but similar recording): Amhrán Mhuínse (The Song of Muínis) I fell in love with the music — I never understood the lyrics. By chance, I scrolled past it in a playlist today, and it spoke to […]