About Paddy Gilger, SJ

 I have spent more time than I care to admit - by which I mean any time at all - looking at this photograph of Kim Kardashian and feeling annoyed. It took me a few moments of that time to figure out why, but here it is: I felt annoyed because I felt controlled, manipulated. And I didn’t like it. … [Read more...]

Today, in addition to being the Feast of the Assumption, would have been martyred Archbishop Oscar Romero's 97th birthday. It's been a big eighteen months (or so) for Romero news. In April of last year his path to sainthood was unblocked, and although there hasn't been any movement thus far, when Pope Francis met with the bishops of El Salvador in May of this year he reportedly "assured the bishops of El Salvador that the sainthood cause of slain Archbishop Oscar Romero was proceeding … [Read more...]

Jesus took Peter, James, and his brother, John,  and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them;  his face shone like the sun  and his clothes became white as light. And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, conversing with him. - Mt 17:1-3  I write, on a gray-skied working Wednesday, of what the Greek-Catholic Dominican priest Jean Corbon called "the historical and literary center of the Gospel," the transfiguration of Christ. It's Fr. Co … [Read more...]

In an aptly-sad, darkly-hopeful, meditation of an essay over at On Faith, Tim O'Brien confesses his sympathy for Judas. “Yes, that Judas," he writes, "Judas Iscariot. The betrayer. The Lost One. The bad guy who rivals only Satan in the collective Christian imagination."Confession made he turns quickly to the main question: just what is the difference between Judas and Peter?He’s right to ask. These Holy Week readings place precisely that question - and a number of others as well - right i … [Read more...]