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Patrick Schmadeke

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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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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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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 👻🎃🍫🍬


If you feel like no political party is an effective vehicle for the gospel, this column is for you. We do have a method, or at least guideposts, through the madness. open.substack.com/pub/schmadeke/…

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I love Michelangelo's unfinished sculptures as an image for the journey of faith—one that is never quite finished. Mine has certainly had its own twists and turns. Here are some of them. open.substack.com/pub/schmadeke/…

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Rachel: tell me more about how matching your socks reminds you of Plato’s Symposium. Me: 😑


Another wonderful lake trip is in the books! Corn on the cob✅ water skiing✅ campfire✅ glow sticks✅ s’mores✅ snooze cruise✅ fun✅ exhaustion✅.

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A little bit of Lonergan, Girard, and my high school history teacher open.substack.com/pub/schmadeke/…


“A hermeneutic of synodality entails—for me—abandoning the theological tunnel vision focused on doctrine, the papacy, and bishops, and taking the Church as the people of God seriously.” This gets better with each read 🔥

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The 1st para from the synod preparatory document highlights the missional nature of synodality. Perhaps your local experience is that the synod has not been missional. That is disappointing, but it is not a negation of synodality, just a failure to live up to Francis’ invitation.

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It’s a joyful day when lunch break turns into a pick plums, pears, and apples break.

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My latest column is on #AI and #evangelization. More than a handful of friends and colleagues helped me think through writing this piece (thank you!). The creative struggle was a joy the whole way. catholicmessenger.net/2024/07/ai-and…


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A #4thofJuly reminder that the middle verses of “America The Beautiful” have surprisingly good theology

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🎯Life milestone reached: slip-on sketchers. I suddenly feel the urge to go on morning walks and read the newspaper 🗞️


Here’s my follow-up: “In The Clowns, We See Our Savior.” Who are the rejected stones among us? catholicmessenger.net/2024/05/in-the…

Sharing this article here with an internet audience because it was received so positively by print readers. Cheers! catholicmessenger.net/2024/04/the-ch…



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It’s graduation season again, so allow me to reiterated: no one who has ever interacted with HR should be able to refer to the horizon of commercial corporations as “the real world” with a straight face.


A breath of fresh air amidst the largely reactionary chaos🧵

What’s great about this AI thing with Catholic Answers is that people are at last talking about what my colleague Brett Robinson has been hammering home for years: the tools we use shape us, whether we’re aware of it or not.



This is helpful. It also echoes the clown in Ratzinger’s ‘Introduction to Christianity’ catholicmessenger.net/2024/04/the-ch…

What’s great about this AI thing with Catholic Answers is that people are at last talking about what my colleague Brett Robinson has been hammering home for years: the tools we use shape us, whether we’re aware of it or not.



Any other parents out there have the remnants of winter in their freezer? We have an icicle, hail, and multiple containers of snow ❄️


To the editors of the world, see below…

Rereading and editing over lunch, then I’ll start contemplating whether to share and where. If any editors are interested, my DMs are open.



Sharing this article here with an internet audience because it was received so positively by print readers. Cheers! catholicmessenger.net/2024/04/the-ch…


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