{"id":45972,"date":"2026-10-06T08:38:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T13:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=45972"},"modified":"2026-10-06T08:38:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T13:38:45","slug":"word-of-the-day-1151","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/10\/06\/word-of-the-day-1151\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Charism<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Charism is not easy to define. I offer this as a simple definition: charism is a gift from God for the church and the world, given as different ways of living out the Gospel.<em> [Sr. Annie Klapheke, SC, <a href=\"https:\/\/catholicaoc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/What-is-Charism.pdf\"><strong>Archdiocese of Cincinnati<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>First time I&#8217;ve seen that one. Noted in <a href=\"https:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/p\/jacob-weisberg-on-trumps-collaborators?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=61371&amp;post_id=216936666&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=false&amp;r=7jemj&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Weekly Dish&#8217;s<\/strong><\/em> LoC<\/a> (<em>Letters of Comment<\/em>, old and probably obsolete terminology) column. For younger readers unfamiliar with the concept, Andrew Sullivan interacts with readers in the old-fashioned manner. The question regards how to be a Catholic as a gay man.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With grace. That\u2019s the short answer. The long answer is partly what the book will try to explain. I regard my sexual orientation less as a burden than as a charism. How I got to that place is the dynamic of the book.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charism: Charism is not easy to define. I offer this as a simple definition: charism is a gift from God for the church and the world, given as different ways of living out the Gospel. [Sr. Annie Klapheke, SC, Archdiocese of Cincinnati] First time I&#8217;ve seen that one. Noted in \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/10\/06\/word-of-the-day-1151\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45973,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45972\/revisions\/45973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}