Patrick Schmadeke

Former stay-at-home dad, evangelization in DioDav, pro-biblical literacy, and an amateur lover of all things Lonergan. Writer, lay-minister, and theology nerd.

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Here are some brief reflections on the liturgies of Holy Week as we enter the Triduum, juxtaposed with other visions of reality on offer.

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The rhythm and content of litanies helps lead my imagination into a better sort of world...the kind of world that God has in mind.

With how polarized life has become, I wrote (with the help of many others) a litany that yearns for such a world.

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[Fr. Bill Dailey, CSC @wrdcsc]

No, AI is not on the verge of super intelligence. There’s little evidence it’s on the verge of dimwittedness. LLM’s may be well-suited to generate code, but…

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Even Walter Cronkite would be locked in an echo chamber...We all have our neighbors to the north top of mind. This column is not about Minneapolis, but it is prompted by it. More directly, it is about developing human authenticity.

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This is what happens when we forget that people are more important than politics and families are more important than ideologies: https://t.co/GXF2edBQIY

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The Spring semester of 2008 had unfolded much like other semesters...

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[Amigo de Frodo @bpdflores]

Part of the AI mystique is the aura of objectivity that surrounds the information generated. It is a mythos useful for the marketing. Behind the program, though, there is a remote editor. Could be an elf, could be an orc. The human reality remains: choose your teachers wisely.

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I was 22 when Pope Francis was elected pope. His death hurts. Here is why I am grateful for his papacy.

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This is one day late, but we can still celebrate. Happy belated feast of St. Catherine of Siena!

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One thing I do not doubt: the price one's soul pays for power is related to whether one understands that power as for the benefit of oneself and one's own kind, or for the benefit of all.

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I feel deep sympathy for Mrs. May in Flannery O'Connor's "Greenleaf." Only love can restore a broken worldview. Only genuine encounter can melt away anger and reverse resentment.

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"the enchantment we need is not to be found elsewhere, in a land or sphere foreign to ourselves. It is to be found within — a belief in fairy tales and music and care for one another driven by a patience that can be measured in seasons of life."

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Remember: we are a people of good news!

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Thanks for the nativity coloring kit, @McGrathND! We still need to finish baby Jesus and the angels, but this activity has enriched Advent for the kiddos.

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@ulrichlehner This does seem strange. Is there continuity of shape with the baptismal font, maybe? That’s the only thing I can think of, but it looks off to me

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I always heard the story of the rich man the same way. All that has now changed.

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Roadtrip reading. No matter the outcome of Tuesday, the church was going to have to put itself some hard questions. Now we know something more about what those questions are. Welcome to the afternoon of christianity.

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@JonathanRHeaps “the true calamity is the one we have wrought within ourselves.” 🔥🔥🔥

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@jdflynn Important data here to further flesh out the conversation

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PSA: the Halloween candy from last year is now fair game for parents. It can finally come down from the closet shelf where it was hidden 👻🎃🍫🍬