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The Bishop’s Blog

Daily prayer: Clare of Assisi

Daily prayer: Clare of Assisi

O God, whose blessed Son became poor that we through his poverty might be rich: Deliver us from an inordinate love of this world, that we, inspired...

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On the road: UC San Diego

On the road: UC San Diego

Groucho Marx said he’d refuse to join a club that would have him as a member. I’m an alumnus of a university that wouldn’t have me as a student if I...

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Daily prayer: For Hawaii

Daily prayer: For Hawaii

Almighty God, who is our strength and our refuge; be with those who are besieged by fire in Hawaii, guide those who evacuate so that they may find...

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On the road: National City

On the road: National City

For a year in the late seventies, I was on the beat in National City, a working class town south of San Diego, getting my parents’ vocation of...

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About the Blog

Bishop John Harvey Taylor has devoted himself to promoting reconciliation, transparency, and a stronger financial and organizational foundation for the diocese’s 200 parishes, missions, schools, and other institutions. In those called to leadership in the church, whether lay or ordained, he encourages the exercise of empathy and curiosity as tools of evangelism, to enrich relationships and build new ones across the barriers of difference and prejudice according to race, language, geography, orientation, identification, age, and socioeconomics.

These are some of his reflections: