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JD Flynn

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14 Sep

I see there is a discourse about homilies. I’m not sure why. I’ll only say this:

I learned there was a Catholic intellectual tradition through homilies, and it could answer my questions, and was more than the vapid Dr. Suessian pablum I’d heard in youth groups.

I have been convicted by homilists preaching the kerygma, the Last Things, the catechism, the saints, impending judgment, the Blessed Mother, the love and mercy of God, the Holy Spirit's power, the fathers of the Church, and every once in a while, the witness of their own lives.

I have been scandalized by homilists reading a canned thing they bought from a syndication service.

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JD Flynn

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20 Jul

Bishop Dan Mueggenborg, auxiliary bishop in Seattle, has been appointed Bishop of Reno, Nevada.

Bishop Randy Calvo, outgoing Reno bishop, is 70 years old - five years younger than customary retirement age, but reportedly submitted his resignation months ago for health reasons.

Mueggenborg, 59, was a priest of Tulsa until he became an auxiliary in Seattle in 2017.

Bishop Mueggenborg has been Seattle’s VG and moderator of the curia. He was previously a formator and the vice rector at the North American College.

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JD Flynn

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26 Jun

It has never been the case in Christian history that the Eucharist was a kind of universal meal. From the earliest decades of Christianity, the Church understood the Eucharist as an expression of communion, and admitted to Eucharist those who were fully in the Church’s communion.

In the early centuries of the Church, Christian initiation took years of formation. And so did penance for grave public sins. Penitents would enter the “order of penitents,” and live sometimes for years doing public penance for grave sins, to atone for wound to Church’s unity.

I would, no doubt, have spent most of my life in the “order of penitents.”

The idea was not punishment in order to shame or humiliate. The idea was to effect conversion, to take seriously the integrity of the Church’s unity and witness, and to take seriously God’s judgment.

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JD Flynn

@jdflynn

24 Jun

Well, in my curiosity about “Free Britney,” I listened to Blackout and Britney Jean last night.

When I thought they were satiric social commentary I thought they were genius. When I realized they weren’t, my enthusiasm for the albums dampened.

But Britney should have justice.

None of us know the real situation of Britney Spears’ mental health. She should have a fair and free hearing.

But it does seem obvious how misogyny and media shading could have played a role in where she is now.

And no one should have a coercive IUD. That’s immoral and tragic.

When Dave Chappelle had a mental health situation and quit the Chappelle Show, he wasn’t judged through the “hysterical unbalanced starlet” lens that Britney seems to be saddled with.

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JD Flynn

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23 Jun

"giving back to the Church" is the sort of phrase that generally suggests an ecclesiology of institution rather than an ecclesiology of common baptismal mission.

It raises my antennae.

"Giving back to the Church" is the sort of phrase one uses when he is glad the Church gave his children a foundation for being perfectly nice and well-mannered people, and not when one realizes that Christ will fling him and his family into some mission of trust and abandonment

a prosaic phrase for a prosaic Christianity.

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JD Flynn

@jdflynn

19 Jun

There remains within some aspects of institutional Catholic culture a desire to be affirmed by the legacy legitimatizing institutions of American public life. The fantasy that if we obscure our weird little popish superstitions, the NY Times will think we're cool.

This is the residual gift of our immigrant past, and maybe the historical circumstances once made the aspiration of social normalcy understandable. But anyone can see the damage it has wrought to the Church, and it is time to stop caring that people will figure out who we are.

We do not let our yes be yes and our no be no, because too often we are trying to find some magical gnostic key to explaining the faith in a way that will cause no scandal. We are left causing scandal while failing to explain the faith.

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