Fr. Jonathan

Not really. I think I make marginally more on the paperback than ebooks, but not enough to make a huge difference. Honestly, I'm just happy to have people read it!

I'm sorry to hear you've had bad experiences! Yes, I talk about scrupulosity, as well as just generally how to approach the Sacrament if you've had a bad experience with it in the past.

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I'm thrilled to announce the release of my new book, Face to Face with Mercy: Encountering God's Love in the Confessional. It responds in plain language to the questions many people ask about the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

Rad is a fun word. What do you find enduring and compelling about Jesus?

Given all the anti Latino racism of the last year, anti Muslim bigotry feels almost retro. It's like the vinyl of hatred.

I can understand that. I guess for me the massive diversity of thought and experience among Catholics is part of the appeal. Plus, Jesus is just really rad.

I'm realizing, for better or worse, that I have trouble easily being a part of a group theologically, politically, philosophically, etc, because deep in my bones is the need to question everything but also to listen to everyone. Not sure if this is a good or bad tendency in myself, but there we are.

Hmm. Maybe this is just too limited a format to get the full argument. I've always felt that Barron got the transcendentals right, but I'm open to persuasion. Is there something you've written elsewhere that I should read?

Why is that bad though? I get what Barron is doing. I don't understand the criticism of it.

Is there a context to this that I'm not getting?

Not sure if that's good or bad. Lol.

Conservative in a very specific direction, which was pretty much directly opposite of the Anglican tradition that formed me. But it's hard for me to get too ruffled about it from this side of the Tiber.

Not sure exactly when I lost control of my class today on what makes a person, but this happened.

Uber reformed, Sacraments are basically nothing, that sort of thing.

Independent religious, human rights & legal-aid organizations should have regular access to federal immigrant detention centers, including & especially those privately operated. Humane conditions & treatment need to be verified. Assertions that everything is fine are not enough.

He was very nice when I met him years ago too. Absolutely unhinged theology, but very nice.

Basic hygiene is critical.

Love this. If anyone wants to play along, name a character, and I'll do the same. DC or Marvel.

Beauty is good though.

You got it.

It is rapidly becoming one, which is unfortunate because it didn't have to be this way.

To be fair, he does have a funny name.

Well as a married man then, I stand by my previous statement. Lol.

There are a few episodes that people have taken the laugh track out and posted on YouTube. Amazing how utterly not funny it is when you do that.

That said, I think the best modern books on this are "By Whose Authority" by Gaillerdetz and "Magisterium" by Avery Dulles.

I would say that this is so, though moral teaching tends to fit in a slightly different box. But a person for instance who was perfectly on board with the Nicene Creed but said that coveting your neighbor's goods is fine would be hard to label as orthodox.

But they didn't use the word "orthodox"... or am I missing something?

Yes, I get that they see them that way. My point is more that the critique of the implementation of Vatican II isn't some fringe idea. It comes largely from people who were at the Council, heavily influenced by it, or in positions where they worked to implement it themselves.