by Micah Murphy | Jan 21, 2023 | Pontifications (Blog)
Screams. Giggles. Delighted shouts and whispered questions. Yes, the 8am Mass my family normally attends often sounds as much a petting zoo as a place of contemplation. (Fittingly, not without a Lamb … and more than a few goats.) Yet every Sunday, countless...
by Micah Murphy | Dec 18, 2021 | Pontifications (Blog)
Our progress along the spiritual path to God is essentially one of purification, illumination, and union. The purification of our souls should be thought of as the refinement of precious metal, trial by fire and the expurgation of impurities under the blows of the...
by Micah Murphy | Dec 14, 2021 | Pontifications (Blog)
Inside of you are two wolves. Catholic wolves. And they’re fighting a battle for your soul. Everywhere you go in the Church today, there seems to be schism, division, and civil war. And what’s the dividing line? It’s not what you think. What politician is the most...
by Micah Murphy | Sep 10, 2021 | Pontifications (Blog)
Last week, I made the case for why Confirmation should never involve required service hours. (TL;DR: it’s the sin of simony.) This week, I will explain a broader problem common to sacramental prep in parish catechesis. It is an open secret among clergy and lay...
by Micah Murphy | Aug 31, 2021 | Comics, Pontifications (Blog)
This is the first post in a four-part series on a broad-reaching problem in modern catechesis. When Simon saw that the Spirit was conferred by the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money and said, “Give me this power too, so that anyone upon whom I lay...
